The problem is that too many people think that events don’t happen when they are not covered on television.
People fall into that with the 24-hour cable channels, thinking that with that much air time, everything important will get coverage.
Wrong. Part of the media’s control is the suppression of information, done cleverly with distracting stories which catch the public’s attention. Car chases instead of coverage or bills introduced by the GOP. And just last night, Whitney Houston’s death consumed all evening programming, ignoring the continued and escalating opposition to the HHS contraception mandate.
This refusal to carry stories is the source of the questions about “Why doesn’t Boehner DO something?” when, in fact, he has introduced numerous bills which have passed but are being held hostage in the Senate.
All this illustrates the SUPREME importance of getting control of the senate this fall. It is the most important thing we can do, next to unseating Obama.
The senate has been a total dictator, refusing to even allow bills on the floor, refusing to allow debate.
It seems like something could be done about that, but I don’t know what as long as Reid is in the catbird seat with not enough strong conservative senators to buck him.
Been going on for an awful long time.
Organizations like CNN attempt to portray themselves as a 24 hour 7 days a week news outlet, on everywhere, even airport bathrooms. It is an attempt to show that in fact EVERYTHING is covered, ad nauseum, and nothing is missed.
In reality, they simply show what they want you to see, over and over and over again, until all are programmed to live their lives patterned after a heard of sheep, with no fundamental concept of the slaughterhouse just a few steps away.