We’re about to give new meaning to the phrase “boob tube“! What a long way we have slipped from the innocent era of test patterns and Conelrad alerts on the family Dumont to State run media now featuring the All Barack Channel. On June 24th, ABC makes television history as they ‘one-up’ the National Barack Channel by providing the acting president with an extended primetime infomercial to present a lopsided pitch for his disastrous health ‘un-care’ program. Please, don’t confuse this with reality T.V.
Reporting is dead. It has been obvious to anyone with two eyes and two ears that the media has become little more than the government’s public relations arm but Wednesday’s public wedding makes it official. The pretense of any objectivity is over. ABC is not only limiting program participation to ‘Obama-ites’ only, they are refusing to allow the purchase of commercial time by anyone expressing opposing points of view — in other words, anyone telling the truth about the actual costs and pitfalls of Socialized Medicine. Excuse me but the First Amendment is where?
More than unprecedented in America, this is dangerous and not only diminishes the power of a White House backdrop for announcements of national significance but drives the final nail into ABC’s credibility coffin. A few highlights will be news anchor Charlie Gibson delivering World News from the Blue Room of the White House. Then, the network plans their propaganda special ‘Prescription for America’ originating from the East Room, excluding opposing voices from the debate, of course. Urgency will undoubtedly be stressed, as it was with the so-called Stimulus Bill, in [hope] of similarly cramming health care [change] down our throats before most people figure out what’s really going on.
Just in case you haven’t lost your dinner by then, the spin continues after the news on Nightline. Oh, by the way, Director of Communications at the ‘White House Office of Health Reform’ is Linda Douglass, who worked as a reporter for ABC News from 1998-2006. Nuptial knot need more tightening? Consider ex-NBC anchor Tom Brokaw being appointed to a special White House panel!
If Fox News was on the ball, they would plan to broadcast a solid wall of competing fact from 5PM until midnight to provide viewers with an alternative to the gibberish that will be spewed from the East Room that night. On the plus side, after this travesty, it should be much more difficult for Democrats to even think Fairness Doctrine or try pushing the concept of ‘localism‘ in broadcasting. We’ll see — anything is possible once the government wraps its talons around our information.
Hey, anyone see Tom Mix on The Four O’clock Western yesterday?
R.S.F.
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