Answer to the Senator Hillary
Clinton
With God's Help the next President of United States
A Len Zayas editorial.-
Dear Senator... You
know my answer, but I’ll repeat it because I want everybody to see it. The “ talking
heads “ , as you correctly refers to the plague of experts,
analysts, know-it-all and braggers that infect the air waves, are a sub-product of the charlatan that used to climb to
the back of a wagon to sell products. They
make some advance, with the advent of radio, to a more sophisticated and easy style of
distribution like radio talk shows. With TV, the same pretenders of yesteryear, are taking
refuge in Night talk shows and even the news, concealed between the legitimate journalists
and reporters that do their job with a minimum of editorializing.
The talk-news shows, that
have taken preference in TV above other forms of entertainment, mainly because they are
economically more plausible , is just becoming epidemic. For years they have been targets of my commentaries for several reasons.-
Top in my list is the right that they abuse: Advertising of all kind masked as genuine
information. Not in lesser amount misinformation from our own government.
Freedom of
expression, and for extension freedom of the press is one of the more valuables assets of
democracy, is practically the fundament of the other liberties. Every tyranny takes like
first step to control the mediums of public expression.
In the other hand,
when in a free nation the media belongs to a reduced group of individuals or
conglomerates, is unavoidable that this person or group use that power for their own
interest or benefit. I could write lines over lines of how that power is been abused in a
daily rudimentary way to the extreme, and how they are gaining, not only in the
economical, but also in the psychological, and not always the best, aspect of the
commonwealth.
The talking
heads, or like many people called, specially the ones from FOX News; Barbies, Kens,
Blondes, Steppfords wives, Clones, and so on, are no more and no less than the worst of
talk shows and tabloids been disseminated under false pretense of information formats.
One of the more
memorable debates that I remember ever watching in the Internet, but originated in TV, was
between a very capable and sharp entertainer, John Stewart, with one of the many
commentators of MSNBC, Tucker Carlson (even though I have to admit MSNBC have only a
couple of intelligent ones and Carlson happens to be one of them).
To illustrate my
point; Stewart gave a classic lecture on the
function of the news as opposite to the entertainment part of a TV station that is suppose
to be informative. The segment was seen, for most people, in YouTube, reaching, if I remember, close to the million viewers.
Disregarding the goodwill of the people, the function of information, the advantage of
free advertising toward both, the Carlson show and the John Stewart’s show, it was
retired from YouTube. Many people blame
Stewart or Tucker for that incomprehensible action. The truth been that it was ordered out
of commission by VIACOM International. VIACOM, between others media stuff, also own Simon & Schuster Publishing.
All this companies
that own the media in the free world operate in a way that result suspicious. They buy and
sell their subsidiaries continuously, what make it impossible for anybody, including the
government, to make them accountable for specific programs or editorialists position.
Sufficient to take a rule of thumb approach toward our qualms is to see how many lawyers
with holding interest in corporations are in their editorial boards. Why lawyers?... well.- do you ever hear about
the lawyer in heaven?... there are not such thing.
The last one is a
joke with foundation, but is not less true that there are very good crusaders that happens
to be lawyers. I belief that is your case, Mss. Clinton..
If you look with a magnifier, lots of patience and a good
heart you will find one or more Wolfs, Amampours, Matthews, Olbermanns, Maddows
commentators that look they are taking the profession very serious, also some qualified and fairs anchor people like Tony Harris. Actually the best qualified anchors and commentators
we find it in CNN, a place where happens we also find some of the worst.
The more abusive,
indiscreet ones and barbaric are harbor in FOX, sorry to say many of them females. The
ones that people more despise, mainly because they betrayed the public confidence, always
find refuge (and probably money that has been washed in some way) in MSNBC.
So Senator, that is
my answer, is not the press, really, is the powerful part of the media that is out to get
you. Not that they care about Obama, if Senator Barrack Obama get his picture in some
bills, then this people will defend him. They only care about their humongous salaries,
payment that goes a lot above their capabilities and above the fixed points of their fixed
ratings.
They are, also,
rendering the American people like themselves, liars, corrupts, racists and sexists If you notice the kind of programming that the networks are
sending abroad you will know that they are portraying us like animals, perverts,
insensitive and criminals.
.Presidents can do a lot
for their constituencies, is not always bills and vetoes.
If something, out of
the classical responsibilities of the position, that you can do like a president about that, in the democratic way, is
to show us like to get back at them, the powerful and expensive megaphone that in no way
represent the will of the people, only the will of the moguls. Show us how to ignore
their stupid remarks and boycott the products that sustain their horrible means. If Ronald
Reagan smashed the right of the workers to be
absent from work like a leveling for claiming privileges, I guess a real democratic
president can show his/her people like to use the power of majority to make that the
American Dream be a little more American and a little less than a dream.
This powerful media
people went to far trying to destroy peoples
decent icons, like you Madam Senator. They are going beyond political maneuvers, which is
their right, to dirty tricks that is not. Do not listen to them, listen to the average
citizen that is behind you in your endeavors. The press is a good symbol of freedom, but
we are the people, we are the force, without us the nation or the freedom itself just do
not exist. God bless America and show us like to make a right choice for the better.
Sincerely; Leonardo (Len) Zayas
may/26/08
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