by reggie501 » Tue Sep 06, 2005 9:34 pm
<!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>SHAMING THE DEVIL<br><br>IMAGINE ALL THE PEOPLE WHO MIGHT STILL BE ALIVE<br>HAD THE CORPORATE MEDIA NOT BETRAYED THEM!</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>There can be no higher law in journalism than to tell the truth and to shame the devil. - Walter Lippman</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>A SINGLE MOMENT OF TRUTH</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Mouths are agape and praises are flowing. Applause and accolades are heard everywhere. Imagine! Just imagine! For the first time in five years, a handful of reporters and television pundits actually told the truth. For the first time in five years, the evidence was so clear and the consequences so shocking, that a few corporate news people who were witness to the horror that followed Katrina, actually found their own voices. <br> <br>For the first time in five years, the Bush administration was publicly accused of being inept and dangerous and deceptive. Finally, some reporters who could no longer deny the obvious simply refused to play the White House game. For a brief moment in time, American television viewers heard the hard questions and learned the damaging truth about a painful and devastating disaster from the corporate sychophants themselves. <br> <br>And guess what? In the wake of this terrible tragedy, the likes of Tim Russert, Shepard Smith, Geraldo Rivera, Jack Cafferty Anderson Cooper and yes, even Paula Zahn, were transformed into instant heroes. Why, because they were actually honest with the public? Why, because they refused to toe the corporate line and give George Bush another uncontested pass? Why, because on this one occasion they did what they should have been doing for the past five years? Exactly.<br> <br>Only it’s too little, too late. Thousands are dead in Louisiana because no one asked questions when they should have been asked. All of the hoopla is taking place after the fact. And therein lies the greater horror. In the past few years, so many lives might have been saved, not only in New Orleans – but in so many parts of the world, had the media only raised the questions they was morally obligated to ask. The dead are dead, and they had no one in the corporate media to champion them. The silence of the news networks has been shamefully deafening and will remain predictably so for a long time. <br> <br>But for a moment, imagine the numbers of people who might have lived had the corporate media not betrayed them. Imagine what might have been had George Bush and his band of thugs been confronted at every turn by the hard questions that should have been asked by honorable journalists? Just imagine what might have been if this administration had been held accountable for its lies and deceptions by the news networks and the press corps. Imagine how many thousands of people might still be alive. Imagine how many maimed bodies might still be whole. Imagine how much suffering might have been avoided. Just imagine.<br> <br>For the <br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>YEARS OF BETRAYAL</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--> and<br><!--EZCODE BOLD START--><strong>WHO WILL SHAME THE DEVIL?</strong><!--EZCODE BOLD END--><br><br>Read the full article: <br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://tvnewslies.org/html/they_might_still_be_alive.html">tvnewslies.org/html/they_...alive.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br> <p></p><i></i>
