Old rant; Lies of the media

[MISTER BIG T]

This is a near year old rant so the grammar sucks. However, my feelings have yet to be altered.

People always wonder when I tell, no I did not read the newspaper (well, I did read comics) and no, I did not watch the news. People wonder, don't I care what happens in world?

But I do care what happens. But I don't want to find out from a newspaper or a tv. They are what manipulates the masses and shapes our world image.

Now, I'd like to start out for the fact that ALL NEWS GET AMERICANIZED. This pisses me off to no extent. For example, the two towers. Yeah, terrorists blew the towers. How many times did the press ask Bin Laden about the manner? How many times did we see the terrorists view?

We were automaticly given out the fact and fed that this whole thing was out of horrible and sick dislike against americans. I'm sure some of that is true, but that's not the whole truth. Because they were guilty, we shouldn't hear them? (As oposed to say, hearing interviews from serial killers and such?)

World is not black and white. Everyone has moral and their own values and their ideals of good and wrong. Now, exactly, you hear about the bomb thing. But did you read in your paper that when each country decided to put these filters in their factories to lower pollution rate, America declined this? Oh, thanks to this, some countries were left off without water.

And this is what sickens me most. Then, we are made out that they are doing "good things" by them apearing in television and doing aid to collect money to get water. The same water they first took off with their own short sightness!

Another thing wich manipulates is our image of "perfect". Ever since it's start, TV, magazines have told what to do, how to act and how to be to be a perfect.

In perfect marriage happily together, theres no arguments, lots of daisys, real cinger break home, a dog, never a cat and lots of kids.

Now, I'm sorry to say, but am I truly the only one that sees that not only is that humongous fat lie, it's also twisting things. Perfect love is never the happy end where the couple share a kiss. It's the couple that argue, they are the perfect love.

Why I say this? They fill each others cursings. Utter ever being happiness is not real. Only if you live in cave without any social contacts and stop the world.

We are told being chubby makes you unpopular and being thin makes popular. Now, I never found Skeletor from He man exactly the bestest sex symbol, but that's what Calista Flockheart must have held as her idol as well as many of those 40 pounds weighting girls who think they are fat.

And even more. Some may know my infamous rant about smoking. Now, ask yourself, exactly how many celebrities, famous and such smoke? The young (Especially young girls who may have a crush on some famous guy) may think that by smoking, they too will be famous. Or they may hope that they'd be "closer" to their idol. Whatever the reason, the outcome is the same.

Then, theres propaganda. Oh, the famous propaganda. Everyone knows about gulf war. US for examble, printed out small pamphlets "fighting for freedom". Freedom? FREEDOM? All the whole thing was to get oil and that's a fact. Sure, now theres this new war (Which I don't comment now) but the old war was all about oil.

Also, Media has nearly killed and nearly put many animals on verge of extint. When a boy chokes into chicken bone, it's not a big new. However, when a shark eats a boy, that's a frontpage new, despite that the sharks despise human meats taste and never really attack humans on purpose, not to mention, chokings killing way more in a year. This has caused even more dumber people to hunt sharks to point that there are only several left.

So now, you know why the only times I read news are when I simply MUST do so.


I'm not blaming america for anything. It's the media I again blame. I'm not saying our newspapers or news are any better, infact, they are just as bad.

Sorry if this sounded like pseudo rant against americans. This was pseudo rant against media.