Where Is The Media?

 

Is it just me, or have you noticed too much media attention on Tiger Woods? Why? 

The guy committed a personal offense against his wife and family, but he didn’t commit a crime! Why so much hype about him? Aren’t there other sports figures, movie stars, news anchors, etc. that have committed the same sort of egregious malfeasance? It’s not like Tiger hosted dog fights, or fixed bets on his golfing outcomes. His problem was personal and should have been kept at that level. 

I can understand why the media wanted to pick up the story in the onset, but to continually harp on it makes me wonder. 

There are many more stories out there that are either being hushed up, or there is some sort of taboo as to what citizens of the United States are allowed to hear, or not.  

Are people afraid to step up and voice their First Amendment Bill of Rights freedom of speech? Do we really have that right? I am not sure. I want to think so and believe so, but there are things that just don’t add up. 

For instance, why did the media not comment about the microchip implanting or the private army for Obama that’s a part of the healthcare reform bill? Why hasn’t the media tuned in on alleged FEMA camps–are they valid or are they concentration camps for Americans like some would have you believe? Why didn’t we find out that guns were taken away from residents that survived Katrina? 

I love my country. I love the foundations it was founded upon. I love freedom. 

It concerns me that our country is leaning far away from it’s founding principles. When government starts to take away our rights to privacy, for instance, we are not living in the country our Founding Fathers created. As most people know, every phone call, every internet website, every instant message can be traced or eaves dropped upon. The Clinton administration, prior to 9/11 used Echelon to spy on people. “Everywhere in the world, every day, people’s phone calls, emails and faxes are monitored by Echelon, a secret government surveillance network. No, it’s not fiction straight out of George Orwell’s 1984. It’s reality, says former spy Mike Frost in an interview broadcast on 60 Minutes on Sunday, Feb. 27.” (CBS 60 Minutes–Ex-Snoop Confirms Echelon Network, March 1, 2000).   http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/02/24/60minutes/main164651.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;2

“Echelon was, or is (its existence has been under—reported in the American media), an electronic eavesdropping program conducted by the United States and a few select allies such as the United Kingdom.” (William Tate, American Thinker”, January 12, 2006).  http://www.americanthinker.com/2006/01/under_clinton_ny_times_called.html

“As an example of those innocent people, Frost cites a woman whose name and telephone number went into the Echelon database as a possible terrorist because she told a friend on the phone that her son had “bombed” in a school play. The computer spit that conversation out. The analyst was not too sure what the conversation was referring to, so, erring on the side of caution, he listed that lady (as a possible terrorist), Frost recalls.” (CBS 60 Minutes–Ex-Snoop Confirms Echelon Network, March 1, 2000). http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2000/02/24/60minutes/main164651.shtml?tag=mncol;lst;2

During the Clinton administration, Echelon was used (or misused) abundantly. 

Why no media hype? Thank goodness 60 Minutes reported on it, but there was no media frenzy about it. Personally, I don’t know about you, but I think it is important to know the government might be spying on my personal conversations! I think it’s more relevant information than the Tiger Woods smear. Don’t you?

Have you heard about the mass exodus of Michigan? I bet not. Tiger Woods’ story is too important! 

According to Ron French and Mike Wilkinson, The Detroit News, April 2, 2009, “There are city’s worth of people moving out of the state. Since 2001, migration has cost Michigan 465,000 people, the equivalent of the combined populations of Grand Rapids, Warren and Sterling Heights — the state’s second-, third- and fourth-largest cities.” http://detnews.com/article/20090402/METRO/904020403/Leaving-Michigan-Behind–Eight-year-population-exodus-staggers-state

People there are losing jobs at an alarming rate. One obvious reason is the auto industry, but there is a trickle-down effect. Loss of people means few customers for the entrepreneur, fewer children in schools–fewer needs, thus less commerce.

 Young college educated families are having to find jobs in other states because there are none to be found in their home state. Their residents have to be foreclosed or sold for loss.  

“In the last ten years, Michigan has lost over a million jobs, most of which will not be coming back.” (Trifter, Leaving Michigan, October 18, 2009). http://trifter.com/usa-canada/michigan/leaving-michigan/  

The major media spends time talking about California and it’s financial condition. Why don’t we hear about the exodus of Michigan?

There are lots of other examples of non-media hype, some of which would make your ears curl. Actually, there are some things I have found recently that I don’t feel “free enough” to talk about! Strange things have happened to some who have brought the subjects to the forefront. It seems to me, if memory serves me correctly, the media jumped on injustices and governmental corruptions to help make wrongs right. It doesn’t seem like the media is as tuned in as it used to be. 

That brings me back to the concept of fear of our freedoms. Although we have documents stating we have freedom of speech, I am concerned that our government has changed, and abides by some of our Constitution and dismisses itself from other parts. Those that are in the powers that be, don’t want a light shined on our freedoms being quietly and slowly taken away from us. Because of this, people are afraid to speak out.  

Is the media hushed about certain issues, thus we don’t hear about them? Are we truly free? Have we gotten that far away from the Founding Father’s concepts?

Freedom doesn’t mean we have the right to hurt anyone, but there are freedoms blood has bought for us. Those Constitutional Rights are precious and empowering to be all we can be as Patriotic Americans. We cannot let them erode like they have been.

It has been my contention for years that the only true freedom we have is the freedom in  Christ.  If you abide in my word, then you are truly disciples of Mine; and you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free,’” (John 8:31-32). There is no freedom like the freedom God gives us when we accept the Lord Jesus Christ as our Savior. Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. (John 8:34-36).

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