-- Our News Media Today
Also, our news media has got to recognize the responsibility to use information correctly and, particularly, to avoid ideology as a substitute for intelligence. Every newscasts, as I have learned from personal experience, avoids certain kinds of serious controversies in order to concentrate its efforts on either frivolous issues of controversy or to fulfill an agenda. When the news media consistently ignores reality, as it does today, it has the immediate effect of concealing reality, such as the reality of routine crime in today's courts, subsequently putting themselves into a position of an "accessory after the fact." Sometimes there is a genuine collusion between the news media and the courts to avoid the exposure of crime in court between a judge and one of the parties in a controversy.
With some important exceptions, our news media consistently ignores the illegal security systems in today's courts and consistently avoids discussing the subject; partly out of fear of this kind of controversy and their legal repercussions; partly out of incompetence in the treatment of information; partly out of naivety; and partly out of their desire to maintain a focus onto their main objectives or political agendas.
In June of 1988 I was involved in a controversy with the Supreme Court of the United States that led to the resignation of the Supreme Court Chief Justice, Warren Burger. Even though I successfully forwarded the appropriate documents to certain members of the American news media, I was consistently ignored. They didn't want to hear of it. The Chief Justice was a "Liberal."
In one interesting but unhappy experience, I sent a letter to a columnist, who specializes in Supreme Court decisions, telling him I was responsible for the resignation of the Chief Justice and had 513 pages of legal documentation to prove it. May I send them to him? I asked.
He came back, in his characteristic formal style, to suggest, that if I actually believe I was responsible for his resignation, then I ought to see a psychiatrist and, in respect to those 513 pages of legal documentation, I could just as easily stuff them up -- well, you know where.
This is the kind of problem to expect from the news media. They are ignorant, under-educated and emotionally inadequate to carry out their responsibilities of thinking, talking and using information properly. They tend to use ideology and operate with an agenda.
With some important exceptions, our news media consistently ignores the illegal security systems in today's courts and consistently avoids discussing the subject; partly out of fear of this kind of controversy and their legal repercussions; partly out of incompetence in the treatment of information; partly out of naivety; and partly out of their desire to maintain a focus onto their main objectives or political agendas.
In June of 1988 I was involved in a controversy with the Supreme Court of the United States that led to the resignation of the Supreme Court Chief Justice, Warren Burger. Even though I successfully forwarded the appropriate documents to certain members of the American news media, I was consistently ignored. They didn't want to hear of it. The Chief Justice was a "Liberal."
In one interesting but unhappy experience, I sent a letter to a columnist, who specializes in Supreme Court decisions, telling him I was responsible for the resignation of the Chief Justice and had 513 pages of legal documentation to prove it. May I send them to him? I asked.
He came back, in his characteristic formal style, to suggest, that if I actually believe I was responsible for his resignation, then I ought to see a psychiatrist and, in respect to those 513 pages of legal documentation, I could just as easily stuff them up -- well, you know where.
This is the kind of problem to expect from the news media. They are ignorant, under-educated and emotionally inadequate to carry out their responsibilities of thinking, talking and using information properly. They tend to use ideology and operate with an agenda.
posted by Alvah Buckmore, Jr., at 11:25 AM
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