Friday, February 6, 2015

Brian Williams Isn't the First

Brian Williams' admission that he fabricated a story is not the first nor, I contend, will it be the last case of the media making up stories for a variety of reasons.  In this case it was to pump up his persona, which isn't so bad considering he is not a journalist but a tv personality.   The unfortunate thing is that the ever shrinking audiance he plays to keeps watching his program and believes that what he says is mostly true.  It should be apparent, but is not, that the major media organizations in this country have agendas and is following them in what they choose to report.  If there are no real stories to further their agendas they make up stories or alter the facts of stories to support their views. It is not something new, Walter Duranty a reporter for the New York Times in the 1930 reported on the Soviet Union during the time of Stalin's efforts to remake that country into a communist utopia and apparently bought into the regime's propaganda in reporting the successes that were allegedly achieved.  What Mr. Duranty missed, wheather purposely or not, was that Stalin starved millions of Ukranians in order to acheive his goals.  The Times printed his stories and readers knew nothing of the starvation until much later, in fact most people never heard of the mass murder until decades later,  but the Times and Mr. Duranty had an agenda, and still do to this day, does anyone remeber Jayson Blair the Times reporter who fabricated stories in 2003.  The New York Times and NBC are not alone in the alleged persuit of the truth, remeber Dan Rather late of CBS News, Peter Arnet of CNN, Janet Cook of the Washington Post, or how about Rolling Stone Magazine and the UVA gang rape story?  The mass media in this country is out of control and will remain so until the public wises up and stops watching and reading, but that is not likely to happen, come Monday no one will remember Brain Williams' lie.

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