Balanced News?

Every time I look around off the main grid, I find more evidence the news industry is forfeiting their role as the watchdog over government in favor of advocacy for leftist policies.  In the words of Evan Sayet, "You turn on the evening news and what do you hear?  [Lie, lie, lie, spin, spin, lie--and that's the truth.]"  Aren't you fed up with the main stream media?  Aren't you throwing your TV out yet?

Did you know you can get your entertainment online now?  Sites like Hulu give you the same prime time shows you record on your DVR's to watch at a time convenient to your schedule and you don't wind up channel surfing and drifting through another news hour filled with spin and lies to 'inform' you of the information they want you to carry into your next conversation over the state of our society.  Turn off the idiot box, rent a movie, or subscribe to a Hulu like site and watch only the stuff you set out to watch then go to your desired source of information.  Mine is customized on Twitter.  I follow talk show producers to get the latest and most accurate information coming across the world wide web of news wires.  Then when a story strikes me as interesting I can go research the topic for myself.  It takes much less time than the hour or two you devote to the news cycle in the evening and you choose whom you want to trust with or without bias of party affiliation, agenda, or personal profit.  Alan from Dennis Prager's show doesn't get paid to Twitter the latest news, neither do any of the other talk show producers.  I know Alan's politics and have a pretty good feel for any agenda he may have.  Hugh Hewitt has three college interns who each have Twitter accounts and then there's Duane.  Poor Duane.  He's so abused.  Manpri's in Its a Small World???  Tsk, tsk, tsk.  The point is, there are much better sources of information than the morning paper or the evening news.  Spend this Independence weekend and set up your Twitter account and locate the radio talk show hosts on Twitter and follow them.  When you want to sit down and veg in front of the small screen, simply open your Twitter page and peruse the news in 140 characters or less.  If something strikes your fancy, click the often provided links to the story and dig in.  Now you're not reliant upon editors and anchors with skewed morals and obligations to their work.  You're not relying on people who believe their job is to make the world a better place instead of keeping you informed though that is their occupations' claims.

I'm also able to follow specific politicians.  I can see who's running against Barbara Boxer or our hhnk, hmm' esteemed Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi.   I can see the progress of follow on election disputes not carried by the MSM or worse, carried with their eloquent 'Republican=EVIL, Democrat=VICTIM advocacy.  To date, I'm following a total of 136 politicians, producers, and bloggers.  Since I'm not nearly as active on Twitter as elsewhere, I don't have many followers.  Perhaps one day I'll have the time to develop a following the way I did here for four months.  Smart people keep coming back even if they hate what I have to say and that's the way I like it.  I like having the opportunity to challenge what the MSM calls informing you, Joe Q. Public.  But I link my Twitter site so you can dig through the names I follow and find those you would like to be informing you.

Some of the things I've learned by doing this are;

The vast majority of gun violence is centralized to the inner cities and is mostly gang and drug related and guns more often stop criminals than enable criminals.

Big business is neither evil nor good, but the end result in the main is "the free market is the most moral system."

Republican party was born on the drive to end slavery and the first blacks to serve in elected positions were elected as and by Republicans.

Same with women and women's rights.

The KKK was born out of the Democrat's attempt to assassinate Republicans, not just blacks.

Republicans established the first national parks.

Republican initiated the first environmental laws.

The environment is vastly cleaner today thanks to the Republican work on regulation, not Democrat.

The Honduran government decided to depose their president because he was setting himself up to be the next Hispanic dictator and that decision was ratified by their Supreme Court.  The military were acting in accordance with their government and the decision was made to seat another president from the same party as proof this was NOT a coup.  Our president was as fast as Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez to condemn the Honduran military for their coup de' tat.  Shame on Barack Obama and on America for electing one who hurriedly defends would be despots.

We would be far better off if government was limited according to the original design of the U.S. Constitution.  A discussion I had last night with a former welfare recipient emphasized this point in my mind.  Child Protective Services is one of those agencies that need not exist.  Because it does exist, neighbors and family members think child abuse is a government problem and not a problem for their community and therefor their responsibility.  CPS becomes an ineffective and abusive agency stepping in where they do not belong and not stepping is where they were designed to step in.  Welfare helps some few people the agency can then make poster children of, but enables great abuses with limited or no accountability.  If these issues were left to the local community to deal with, the local community could and would help and hold the recipients to local accountability.

On and on it goes.  You too, can have a new education in a matter of weeks if you'll choose your information services rather than swallow whatever comes across the screen in your living room.  That is how Barack Obama got elected.