Mainstream media - what’s the point?

The mainstream media is mostly useless.  This may be news to you, or if you’ve been reading alternative press a while, it might not.  There are various levels of hell devoted to the different divisions of mainstream media.

I think the lowest rung of hell is reserved for local news.  I didn’t even realize this until years after I stopped watching it.  My wife enjoys the local news.   On those rare occasions that I’m subjected to it, I usually yell at the tv so much that my wife turns it off.  Local news can run the gamut from a commercial for the next tv program to a puff piece on a kids’ sports team.  Never do they allow any of that nasty real content to seep into their broadcast.

Then there’s network news.  Its only benefit over local news is that content sometimes slips into the broadcast, mostly by mistake.   There’s an obvious slant.

Moving on, we have the Fox/CNN crew.  CNN is referred to as the CIA Network News because the CIA acknowledges having their people in the for a month, whereupon they spun the news.  The CIA has also stated that they have `people’ at all the networks in case they’re needed.  Fox couldn’t be fair and balanced if you ran them over with a road leveling machine.

People who don’t generally think beyond what they’re told are pretty satisfied with the existing choices.   The rest of us, who tend to question everything, look elsewhere for our news and enlightenment.

So where do we look?

Glad you asked.

I have added to the links on this blog.  You see them on the right of each individual blog post.  Two categories to check out are non-mainstream news and radio.   Radio covers online radio and podcasters with interesting topics.  Non-mainstream news is a few sites you can visit that concern things you won’t see but need to.

You don’t have to agree with me or the sites.  Just listen with an open mind.  You’ll find that you’ll start watching mainstream media with a different eye.   Don’t forget to tell me what you think after listening.