News is no longer just reported but managed!

"But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought." -George Orwell

Fewer and fewer people vote. Fewer and fewer people understand the poltical process. Thus, the media makes "news" entertaining and not educating. The media no longer teaches us what it is like to live in a democracy. So instead we now we have media focusing on trivial stories that don't have any resonance at all. What are the most important issues facing our countries today? Globalization? Free trade? Education? Who would know? We sensationalize sex trials and celebrity murders that have little bearing on improving our life as an American citizen.

Has the mainstream media become an anti-democratic force in the United States?

People always forget. You need a healhty media system to counteract with this forgetfullness -- how else will we pay attention and feel the need to protect ourselves? Spectacles and bullshit will be forgottein in a few days if the news continues to be dramatized. A good example of this is the fact that 51% of Americans think that Sadaam Hussein is personally responsible for the September 11th attacks!

Americans just don't know! Forgetting would even be better now that I think about it because most Americans just have no idea what is going on!

Patterns

Are their patterns in the way the news is covered?

Only 1 in 4 people trust the government compared to 4 out of 5 back in the 1960s. The level of trust in the country is down even from Watergate. It is frustrating to see how Americans think that the U.S. sense of democracy is the best form of democracy in this world. It is the high water mark of the human race! Howis it that two political parties represent 280 million people in this country!?!

A sense of powerlessness is spreading across America. A significant amount of people in our country already don't vote or care about the issues -- tuned out entirely. The top 1% controls 90% of the wealth and have the power of two major political parties doing their bidding for them. The other 99% have no represenation at all. Yet that same 99% runs around with American flag stickers on their classes screaming that America is a great place to live because we have freedom and rights.

"They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality...and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening." -George Orwell 1984

Could a media system, controlled by a few global corporations with the ability to overwhelm all competing voices, be able to turn lies into truth?

We no longer are a democracy in the United States. Instead we have turned into a mediaocracy. Outright lies now pass as truths on a day to day basis by network news and the government or ruling elite. The media system controlled by global corporations are not answerable to the people. Only the politicians can control or regulate them! Corporations buy politicians with campaign contributions so that competing voices can be forced into silence. Thus, only one voice and truth is heard by the people.