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Our leaders can authorize, approve, promote whatever bizarre program or policy their tiny minds can dream up because they are NEVER held accountable for anything.

Most egregious was insisting on mortgages for those who had no way to pay them which snowballed into the disaster we all know. And why not, they didn’t have to worry about the consequences because for them there never are any.

Yep. Ironically, it was the introduction of news syndicates in the early 20th Century and so-called "non-biased reporting" in TV news of the 1950s that made hidden bias part of news reporting in America. Prior to 1930 or so, there was no such thing as "unbiased journalism" in our country. Practically every city worthy of the name in the U.S. had two or more dailies (there were eight -- eight! -- dailies in New York as recently as 1940!), and each of these papers were for he most part officially "nonbiased" but actually quite openly biased. Since most city-dwelling people read several papers every day, it was possible for a person of that era to form informed opinions by weighing one set of biases against another. You read the Morning Democrat over coffee, the Evening Republican before your supper, and often the local Catholic, Yiddish, or German newspaper over a cigarette before you went to bed. By combining openly biased news from various sources, people of that day could piece together a fairly accurate picture of the situation at hand.

Today, however, the papers are almost all gone, and the bias in news reporting is skillfully hidden, leading TV viewers to believe that they're getting unbiased information. What they're actually getting is subtle but powerful audiovisual propaganda, carefully crafted by the Power Structure to program them for certain predetermined outcomes of opinion.

The best way to beat the programmers is to get rid of your TV and radio and get all your news from blogs and other openly-biased Web sources. By exposing yourself to openly biased reporting from all sides of an issue, you can synthesize a more-or-less accurate picture of What's Really Going On just as newspaper readers did in the days of Lippman and Winchell.