I am a journalism major and I couldn't agree with you more. TV is the worst of its kind. You can get a little better coverage by reading the paper, but still there is so many biased opinions in these articles. I tend to say that this is what you get when it is governmentally controlled (FCC). The government has the power to do something about this, however this issue of the constituation is at risk. It's all about "fair" rather than "right". I found this post in my myspace bulletins...its a bit long but all the truth!
This is a rather long read, but well worth the time it will take to read it.
This letter was sent to the Wall Street Journal on August
8, 2008 by Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Of Beverly Hills , CA .
On July 31, 2008 the Wall Street Journal had an article
titled "Where's The Outrage?"
Really. I can tell you where the outrage is.
The outrage is
here, in this middle-aged, well-educated, upper-middle class
woman.
The outrage is here, but I have no representation, no
voice.
The outrage is here, but no one is listening for who
am I?
I am not a billionaire like George Soros that can fund an
entire political movement.
I am not a celebrity like Barbra Streisand that can garner
the attention of the press to promote political candidates.
I am not a film maker like Michael Moore or Al Gore that
can deliver misleading movies to the public.
The outrage is here, but unlike those with money or power,
I don't know how to reach those who feel similarly in
order to effect change.
Why am I outraged? I am outraged that my country, the
United States of America , is in a state of moral and
ethical decline.
There is no right or wrong anymore, just
what's fair.
Is it fair that millions of Americans who overreached and
borrowed more than they could afford are now being bailed
out by the government and lending institutions to stave off
foreclosure? Why shouldn't these people be made to pay
the consequences for their poor judgment?
When my husband and I purchased our home, we were careful
to purchase only what we could afford.
Believe me, there are
much larger, much nicer homes that I would have loved to
have purchased.
But, taking responsibility for my behavior
and my life, I went with the house that we could afford, not
the house that we could not afford.
The notion of personal
responsibility has all but died in our country.
I am outraged, that the country that welcomed my mother as
an immigrant from Hitler's Nazi Germany and required
that she and her family learn English now allows itself to
be overrun with illegal immigrants and worse, caters to
those illegal immigrants.
I am outraged that my hard-earned taxes help support those
here illegally.
That the Los Angeles Public School District
is in such disarray that I felt itincumbent to send my child
to private school, that every time I go to the ATM, I see
"do you want to continue in English or Spanish?",
that every time I call the bank, the phone company , or
similar business, I hear "press 1 for English or press
2 for Spanish".
WHY? This is America , our common
language is English and attempts to promote a bi- or
multi-lingual society are sure to fail and to marginalize
those who cannot communicate in English.
I am outraged at our country's weakness in the face of
new threats on American traditions from Muslims.
Just this
week, Tyson's Food negotiated with its union to permit
Muslims to have Eid-al-Fitr as a holiday instead of Labor
Day.
What am I missing? Yes, there is a large Somali Muslim
population working at the Tyson's plant in Tennessee
Tennessee , last I checked, is still part of the United
States If Muslims want to live and work here they should
be required to live and work by our American Laws and not
impose their will on our long history.
In the same week, Random House announced that they had
indefinitely delayed the publication of The Jewel of Medina,
by Sherry Jones, a book about the life of Mohammed's
wife, Aisha due to fear of retribution and violence by
Muslims.
When did we become a nation ruled by fear of what
other immigrant groups want? It makes me so sad to see large
corporations cave rather than stand proudly on the
principles that built this country.
I am outraged because appeasement has never worked as a
political policy, yet appeasing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is
exactly what we are trying to do.
An excellent article, also
published recently in the Wall Street Journal, went through
over 20 years of history and why talking with Iran has been
and wi ll continue to be ineffective.
Yet talk, with a
madman no less, we continue to do.
Have we so lost our moral
compass and its ability to detect evil that we will not go
in and destroy Iran 's nuclear program? Would we rather
wait for another Holocaust for the Jews - one which they
would be unlikely to survive? When does it end?
As if the battle for good and evil
