The main stream media feeding us the "news" each and every day consists of several large, conglomerate networks whose only reason for being is not the faithful imparting of the current events shaping our lives, but is the enrichment of the executive board, on-air celebrities, and stockholders who are all looking to profit from your interest in and need to know about the happenings in the world and your reliance on the news broadcasts they provide. It is not even considered by them that an accurate, timely reporting of world affairs be provided as the prime responsibility and highest priority. No, the only responsibility they acknowledge and the only duty they recognize is making a bigger profit than they made in the last rating period. The news events of the day are first screened according to the emotional impact they will have on the listeners, then embellished to include "exclusive" or "breaking now" qualities coveted by the reporters for even more shock and awe, and finally the twisted for profit lies and half truths are broadcast to the public in such a way as to be accepted fully, lock, stock, and pickle barrel, as the authoritative, absolutely truthful representation of the events that have ocurred in the past hours or days. These networks, specifically their broadcast anchors, scour the millions of reports received via wire services and other sources for profitable, impactful, captivating subjects that will insure millions of listeners tuning to their network for their worldwide updates. The more incredible and outrageous the reports the more the public will tend to choose their broadcast, and the more they can charge the sponsors for a thirty second advertisement.

The advertising industry in this and other countries is not in the business of selling the sponsor’s products or services by advertising on TV, rather they make their billions by selling us, the audience, to the sponsor. Think about that concept for just a moment. You, the viewing public watching the evening news, are the product being sold as if you were a bar of soap or fast fix dinner package, to the sponsors. The more millions of viewers the network can show is listening to their programs the more they can charge the sponsor for ad time. The sponsors carefully study the ratings earned by the various media institutions and budget their spending to aquire ad time only on the highest rated networks and programs they can afford. The lower the rating of the network the less they can demand for broadcasting the sponsor’s commercials. So the priority of the main stream media is to be rated higher than the others to guarantee a higher profit and become even more wealthy and powerful than they are. When the network is rated high in the rankings they make more profit. More profit for the network equates to greater wealth, notoriety, and prestige for the major celebrities who anchor the primetime news broadcasts. That, my friends, is the overriding, all encompassing purpose and ultimate priority of the news media, money, and more and more of it.

Now if the media giants were content with their wealth and celebrity we might all survive with only relegation to the status of goats as our worst injury. But be assured and know full well that once the financial victory is verified and secured, the whetting of their lust and relentless pursuit of absolute dominance has only just begun. Knowing for fact that what you perceive as truth and how you react can influence the way you vote, the way you spend, the way you raise your children, and all other aspects of your life, the media networks have embarked on the ominous and frightening path of total manipulation of public attitude and comprehension of reality. Psychological thought control of the entire population of their broadcasting area through the reinterpretation and spinning of what you believe to be truthful news reporting is their ultimate goal. The intentional character destruction of public officials and leaders of communities through biased personal opinions offered as truth, and lies and fairy tales presented as news is, to them, valid means by which to reach that goal.

Yes, they have found their voice and it is woe. Woe unto all who fell for Dan’s scripted apology to "any who might have been offended" after failing to convince us that George W. might have broken the law while in the military. He should have begged the President’s mercy and admitted publicly to promulgating lies and concocting libelous accusations against the Chief Executive.

It is woe unto all who believe the groundless and fact forgetting reports of the state of war in Iraq. They report only the number of American soldiers killed or wounded every night and purposely leave out and hide the fact that ten or fifteen times that number of the enemy are eliminated by death or capture. The news media has never reported any estimate of enemy troop strength or effective state of enemy training because they want you to believe in an endless supply of enemy soldiers and supplies and in the fictitious lethality of their resolve when, in actuality, there were less than 55,000 total insurgents in the beginning and through efficiently planned and well executed battle plans we have eliminated 50 to 70% of those to date and will eventually totally eliminate their ability to fight. But that is good, non-profit news that does the networks no good. What they need is sensationally bad, distressingly depressing news that all mothers, fathers, husbands and wives, brothers and sisters, and sons and daughters will run to their televisions to tune and listen to. After all, the danger perceived is far more engrossing than the victories achieved and thus, are more sensational, drawing more viewers, increasing their rating share, etc. etc. etc. All for money and power over your life.

Why, you ask, would the networks and mainstream media want to control our lives? What purpose would it serve for them? Power and wealth are the only purpose they know. The press was given a special place in our society by the founding brothers for the purpose of keeping the population apprised of the goings-on of government and other powerful organizations, and that is as it should be. But, as in a lot of areas, the framers of our constitution could not have foreseen the way that special privelage has been twisted and bastardized into the collusive, evil, power hungry criminality it has since assumed. Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The media moguls have seen that their interests are in common with those of the liberal politicians, that interest being the overall and absolute control of all aspects of society, and have chosen to promote and praise those who are of like minds and to slander, belittle, and if possible destroy the character of those who would uphold and preserve the pursuit of happiness and all other unalienable liberties we have fought to retain.