What actually happened.
Did you in the media think we didn't notice what you were doing?
Did you think we were impressed by your embarrassingly softball questions to anyone in the Bush administration when we knew what questions real reporters would ask; what we desperately wanted you to ask? Did you think we would forget what real journalists and real news looked like when we watched you become simple stenographers? Did you realize how many readers, watchers, customers turned their backs on your obedient spewing of the daily White House talking points and found real news on the internet?
We did notice. From the beginning. From the very start, the stench of catapulted propaganda made the media reek. We could see it, smell it.
Did you think we were stupid? Did you think we wouldn't mind being shoved off the air, mocked off the newspapers, scorned in the public square and literally told to shut up for daring to even question the motives of the Bush administration? Did you really think you could make your own irresistible reality and we would buy into it?
We didn't. Not once.
We could see all the wires, red herrings, curtains with small egos behind them. We could hear every subtle shift in the explanations, reasons, and increasingly bizarre excuses. We could hear every tone, vowel emphasis, verb choice. It exposed all your actions, intentions, projections. We knew you were lying.
We know this has been going on for a long time, but right now we're addressing George Bush's two horribly long terms of office. Where countries fell because of your unquestioning support of the worst administration ever. Where people were tortured, families separated, soldiers died because you decided to buy into what Bush was selling. Where land was poisoned, allies insulted, treaties broken because you asked no questions but assured us this was okay. Where people drowned, species were lost, toxic toys were played with as you assured us this was the way to do business.
You may be just waking up from the delirious fog that was piped into Bush's bubble, but we've been watching from the outside. You might want to tell us you didn't know, you weren't in the loop, you weren't there, but we know you were. You lied to us.
That's what happened.
And we won't forget.
crossposted at American Street
2 comments:
isnt it amazing how some of the media are now saying "we were duped to" -- bullshit -- if we knew, you knew
and david gregory has the f-ing gall to say "we did push" -- yes david you and helen thomas pushed more than others -- but only so far
there was NO sense of really debating the issue -- you guys were just as afraid of bushco as a lot of others
you fell down on the job and we wont forget --- why do you think more and more people use blogs and you are more and more irrelevant
I really feel they thought they had all their ducks lined up in a row: the defense contractors, the mercenaries, the new Iraqi government ready to shoehorn in, the mega-media corporations all prepped and ready to go. Everybody had their scripts and it was going to be short and sweet:
Mr Rumsfeld is in Europe to try to gain backing for possible military action against Iraq.
"It could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months," he said, speaking at the American air base at Aviano, in northern Italy.
But they hadn't taken into account the resistance of the Iraqi people and the refusal of the American people to go along with their neat little PNAC plans.
Worst of all, they hadn't considered and couldn't contain the internet. That shared information could not be silenced, processed, edited, slanted.
Newspapers and magazines found their subscriptions dropping as more and more people went to the net. If people could not find information on the war or the latest events with American media, they went abroad and began to compare and contrast.
And now, just because the media realizes 70% of their potential market is violently against anything connected to Bush and Bush's reign of terror is coming to an end, now they feel they can obfuscate the facts and pretend they didn't march in lockstep with the Bush administration.
But we have every article ever written, and every newscast on YouTube to constantly show the media where they stopped being reporters and became parrots.
Lying about it won't do it. Insincere apologies won't do it. It will take years to undo what has been done, and it will never be the same. The media did it to themselves and have only themselves to blame.
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