When politics triumphs over common sense, chaos reigns.

American politics is defined as the exchange of money for the power to influence the use of government force.

Due to the 24/7/365 nature of television today, the networks must fill up time. Most networks fill up their time with entertainment programming, so news reporting was originally an afterthought.  In recent times, the networks have discovered that news can be a profit center along with their other programming.

Forty years or more ago, the broadcast networks had a monopoly on national news. When the cable networks started showing up in the 1980s, competition in entertainment programming and news started.  During the days when this observer watched broadcast network news, the networks trotted out their experts to voice an opinion on a subject.  During this “expert” testimony, either the expert’s opinion became the network’s position or perhaps the network hired the expert based on that expert’s opinions.  Unfortunately, most if not all of the time, no dissenting opinion was given.  If any position can be supported by hard verifiable facts, there should be no problem.  Many times these opinions are not supported by verifiable documented facts.  When that happens, the news broadcast can become propaganda.  Recently political correctness (censorship) has limited what is broadcast and news trivia is broadcast instead.  In the 1990s, the Internet was invented and it was used as an information source and product sales.  Later news opinions and articles were posted.  In the late 1990s, blogs and social media websites were invented.  Since then, many Americans have learned that Internet blogs and social media can provide them with more truthful information about their government than will the mainstream news media.  By censoring the news, the media is shooting themselves in the foot.  Why go to the mainstream media for news when it is available on the Internet without all the propaganda and commercials?  The news media will insist that Internet news is not complete and accurate, but then neither are the mainstream media news reports.

With the 2016 election, President Donald Trump’s use of social media has impacted the news media in a major way by allowing him to communicate directly with the American people and bypass the all news media interpretation and censorship. During the 2016 election, the mainstream media took sides by supporting the Democratic Party and advocated against the Republicans and candidate Donald Trump.  The attacks became so bad that the American public learned that the mainstream media TV and newspapers cannot be trusted to tell the truth.  By taking sides, the media may have forever abdicated their former role as guardians of truth and impartial reporting.  It serves the public interest for President Trump to continue to communicate directly with the American public.

Why would someone who watches the news want to hear the Democratic Party side of the story when it is almost always boilerplate propaganda? Have the last 20 years or more of workplace discrimination against white Christian males reached the point that only minorities and females are allowed to be experts?  For this observer, watching the news on TV can only be done with proper use of the remote mute button.

Your professional politician Member of Congress is counting on you forgetting what you dislike about him or her before the next election so that member can get re-elected. If you truly want to have input into how we are governed, the country needs The Accountability Amendment (August 4, 2016 post) and The Federal Judiciary Amendment (March 31, 2016 post).  All politicians will vigorously oppose both amendments because it makes all government immediately accountable to the public with serious consequences for lying and actions that damage our citizens and country.