By Mike Polce, Contributing Writer
The media that we know and love is slowly crumbling before our eyes, and it is terrifying. It is not the lack of media or even the excess of media today that is the center point to our frustrations and grievances. It is the vigorous egos that live in the hearts of mainstream networks that will say or do whatever it takes to crush their opponents.
It is CNN releasing an article in April titled, “Here’s What you think of coronavirus if you watch Fox News.” Undermining any possibility that humans are free thinkers, that humans can make judgments and base their ideals off what they believe, not what they watch. It is Fox News releasing an article just a week ago titled, “Taking Biden from one basement to another.” In hopes that people will view him weak and incompetent because at 77 years of age he refuses to leave his house during a worldwide pandemic that is known for killing the elderly.
It is absurd. Both networks are absurd. Facts do not seem to be relevant today. Instead it is the continuing use of eccentric statements that these networks rely on to gain viewer ratings so the people running them can maintain their pompous, filthy rich and power saturated lives.
The Fox corporation’s total assets ring them out to be worth about $20 billion. Lachlan Murdoch, the company’s executive chairman, is worth around two billion dollars. Turner Broadcasting System, the world-renowned entertainment business that owns and operates CNN, is worth around $12 billion. Ted Turner, the man who created the company is worth around two billion dollars. Anderson Cooper, CNN’s top news anchor is worth an outrageous $200 million.
If these numbers do not speak to you in the same way they speak to me, there is a problem. The purpose of these networks is to inform people. People of all classes. How is a man worth $200 million supposed to relate to the working class of America and inform them of the news they desperately need? He cannot, it is impossible.
These people acquired these positions not because they love America, not because they wish to inspire people of all nationalities and backgrounds, not to organize methods of sustained peace within our borders. They acquired these positions because they are power-hungry. Money is the world’s most toxic drug. People will do or say whatever it takes to make more of it and today’s media outlets prove that.
I am disgusted with the direction the media is heading towards and I am even more sickened by how the American people are handling it. At what point will we realize that CNN and FOX News are not the outlets that we deserve. At what cost will it take for us to stop watching these fabricated fallacies and start paying more attention to the unbiased news sources such as, “The Guardian?” There are many great news sources out there and the fact that these two unholy excuses for news are on top says something, we are all suckers for entertainment.
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