Loading ...think it was on Fox, ” Do Not Be Misinformed, The Media Is NOT in the Information Business, it is in the Opinion Forming Business.” I don’t think I have ever heard a more correct and true statement. As a former member of the media, at least in short, I am embarrassed and ashamed of the media today. I can barely take to watch it or listen to it. The lies have over run any sense or meaning of the truth. By any definition, or stretch of the imagination.
On one of the rare occasions, I mostly worked alone, I was talked into taking some pictures for CBS. I may have written about it once before. I was not used to taking orders from anyone, especially in the media. You wanted pictures of combat, you hired me to go get em. You paid me well, you took what I gave you. Period. This one time a reporter/producer from CBS accompanied me on a trip to Nicaragua, besides having to wipe his butt all along the way, I don’t think he had ever been outside the jungles of New York, but I got to give this guy credit. For two things. He wanted to see combat, and once the bullets started flying, he became a pretty good listener. 🙂
But the thing I remember well to this very day, is the Contras where about to cross a river. I took some film of them entering the wide river, and then asked them to hold up a second while I waded out to the middle of the stream to get another shot of them starting to cross. This producer yelled at me, for ‘staging a shot’. He was right, sorta of, but compared to what I see and hear on the networks today, that day was a non event. Whatever values, morale’s, or guidelines the media once ascribed to are long, long, gone. Its all about influencing the minds of the viewers. Simply put, it has long ago cease to be news, I don’t care what they call it, it is pure Propaganda.
There is an old saying that I cant bring to mind at the moment. No wait, two, one says,
“The first casualty of war is the Truth”. And folks, we are at War. The second is….it will come to me later. lol
Gold and Silver held their own today. The miners not so much. Ended up a little better than I thought in the trading account. Added a little more JDST in anticipation of OE tomorrow. Gots to make up for lost ground from today. Did I ever tell ya ” I hate having to make the same earnings TWICE?”
We pick up the fight again in the morning. GRRRR 🙂