An Op-Ed from the desk of IST’s managing editor…..

For many years I have been bitching about the Mainstream Media (MSM)……it lost all its objectivity when in became an arm of a corporation’s entertainment division…..it is NO longer about informing the viewer more like up the ratings at any cost…….

We all have our news sources….for me it is a site of Breaking News which is updated every 5 minutes or so with news from many different sources…..the on air media has become an arm of the propaganda machine of political parties and ideologies……

Let’s look at a recent news item….missing flight from Malaysia…….there has been NO new information since the original report of it disappearing……and yet a month in and we are still getting updates of NOTHING!

Then some of the pressure was taken off the channels when the mountain slid down on the tiny town of Oso, Washington….and we set off reporting the none news items……endless reporting of NO news…….

Finally that story got a break when a guy went on a shooting spree at Ft. Hood Texas……and now we are talking to everyone that ever saw this guy….even the pizza delivery guy from two nights before….it is not news now…once the breaking news was reported it was over….then the media set about sensationalizing the act…….It will be relentless until another “breaking news” pushes it off the radar…….

This newest story is making me sick……okay the newest guy bought his gun from the same store that the previous Ft. Hood shooter got his…….full disclosure….I admit that I once walked past this store and looked in…..according to the media that makes me a ticking time bomb…….oh well……

The media has missed many worthy stories in the blind pursuit of the sensational……,and because they determine what is important….the American people are becoming less and less informed……..and because they are less informed our society is suffering….but then that is the key to what the media is actually doing……..

An ignorant society is easy to manipulate………and YOU are letting them get away with it…….