We can't really blame politicians for lying to us. It's what most of us want. In almost every case in the last 100 years when a politician has expressed an unpopular truth they have lost the next election or been recalled.
The cost of running a campaign is so exorbitant that it is almost impossible to do without patronage from corporations and the wealthy. We know that they don't give out money without expecting a larger return than their investment.
However, what the news media does is treason. They say they broadcast news. Our founding fathers established a free press so that an informed electorate armed with the truth can make the best choices to "...form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our posterity,..." I know that some news-people would consider that so much liberal claptrap rather than the vision of our founding fathers.
By focusing on irrelevant male bovine excrement, false propaganda sources, and creating a distraction from an impartial, unbiased presentation of all of the pertinent facts the news media is violating the sacred trust granted them by the First Amendment. Some are worse than others, but as a class the news media is abrogating their responsibility to inform the public. Both of these repudiations of your sacred trust. It borders on treason. NO! It is treason.
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