There are endless examples of misinformation, spin, and outright avoidance of important issues in our lives. Thanks to the Internet, the common man can still find this information. If it wasn't for the Internet, we wouldn't have this swell of people waking up to the lies spouted all around them.
The first topic that comes to mind is the nuclear one. How many of you have heard of the flooding problems in the Fort Calhoun Nuclear plant in Nebraska last month? It was a topic on Alternative media for weeks before enough pressure built up on the mainstream to produce minimal and downplaying reports.
What about Fukushima? We haven't heard anything in the media for months on this issue. Most people would assume that this means that the problem has been resolved and we're out of the woods. I'm afraid not. The Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster has gotten so bad that a Japanese nuclear director has recently stated that those living in Fukushima Prefecture don't have a right to live without massive radiation.
Update: Radiation Detected at the Base of Ventilation Stack for Reactors 1 and 2 shows 10 Sv/hr. This is the Maximum threshold of their Geiger Counters and thus, is likely higher. As Wikipedia Shows, with 6-18 minutes of exposure to this level of radiation you would experience symptoms such as "Mild to severe nausea, loss of appetite, infection; more severe bone marrow, lymph node, spleen damage; recovery probable, not assured." After a mere 36 minutes at 10Sv/hr a person would experience "central nervous system impairment, death expected." After an hour or more "Incapacitation and Death Occur."
All we heard in the media was the President talking about how the radiation wouldn't make it here. If he was right, then why did the EPA quickly raise radiation limits? As you can see below, radiation from Japan has made it to North America.
I could write a whole article about Fukushima and the silence by itself, but I'll leave that for another day.
How about the biggest energy crisis before this, the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. We haven't heard anything about this for months or over a year in most cases. Apparently the Mainstream is ignoring the continuing health crisis for the residents of the area.
How about recent evidence that the GOP allegedly rigged the 2004 election? Are you surprised? Don't be.
Have you ever thought about why these issues aren't being covered?
The simplest question and the one you should ask yourself in EVERY problem is "cui bono," or in English, who benefits?
Remember what class the editors and anchors fall under. Do you think it affects them if main street is being slaughtered? Of course not, which is why you'll see minimal reporting regarding it. Yet how much reporting do you see that concerns wall street? You could turn to any mainstream station at any given time and 90% of the time you'll see news concerning wall street.
Heck, just spend one hour of your day researching the Rupert Murdoch (owner of News Corp, which owns FOX, New York Times, Dow Jones, etc.) scandal in the UK. Do you think it's any different here? This is how the mainstream media does business.
This is why alternative and local citizen driven media is so important in our time. Did you know that you can find the best information on YouTube? Go ahead and try it. This is why the government is working so hard to shut down the Internet and the ability of you and me to speak about what is important to us. The more citizens report what they see, the more truth comes out. It's up to each and every one of us to start throwing our money and time towards citizen reporters and Internet freedom. The more people communicate without major media, the more we realize that people across the world want the same things. We don't want to kill each other. All we want are the basics; food, water, shelter, love and family.
Mainstream media survives off of us. It's time to cut the umbilical cord.
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