I'm no longer freaked out that the mainstream news outlets ignore most of the important news, because now everyone is a first-person eyewitness, if not a fully capable reporter. Plenty of great reporters out there are bloggers or website managers who then present this information for the rest of us, and thanks to social media, word spreads like West-Texas wildfire once that happens. Plus, as you say, even the corporate mouthpieces that call themselves the "news" these days can't ignore police brutality.
It disgusts me that only right-wing news gets reported. I mean, even NPR - the only fair-and-balanced mainstream news out there - reports on the frakkin' Dow Jones average at the top of each hour, thereby legitimizing that as "important." Who cares? How about if all our retirement funds pulled out of the stock market? That would be AWESOME.
You're right, that only civil disobedience can change anything that real human beings care about in this country. That also disgusts me, and it reveals the truth about who's really in charge.
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Re: Rambling comment in agreement
Date: 2011-09-27 06:53 pm (UTC)It disgusts me that only right-wing news gets reported. I mean, even NPR - the only fair-and-balanced mainstream news out there - reports on the frakkin' Dow Jones average at the top of each hour, thereby legitimizing that as "important." Who cares? How about if all our retirement funds pulled out of the stock market? That would be AWESOME.
You're right, that only civil disobedience can change anything that real human beings care about in this country. That also disgusts me, and it reveals the truth about who's really in charge.