Media Regret

I've been relatively quiet about the health care debate....not because I didn't have anything to say, but attributed to the fact that I was surprisingly shocked by things that took place, and I wanted to see how it all played out. All the false talk about death panels and government run health care, etc.

The actions that surprised me most were that opposition to the process based on falsehoods went often times unchecked by our media, which made me wonder....after the disaster the became of the Bush Administration could the media be suffering from guilt of some kind? You know how when you mess up really bad, you overcompensate in attempt to make up for your mistake? Well that's what I mean. When we needed them to "grill" our government about the decision to invade Iraq or the Bush tax cuts, the media was mostly MIA. Afraid to speak up I suppose, but at the very least shouldn't they have given us the FACTS?! Now FAST FWD to the Obama Administration's attempt at health care reform. Instead of providing substantive information, the media spent a HUGE amount of time talking about death panels, Obama's citizenship, and other ridiculous topics. Another analogy...you know they say that when a child is desperately seeking attention, you should ignore them and eventually they stop and move on to something else? Same idea here. Instead of the media saying unequivocally, "These statements are false!" and moving on, they talked endlessly which emboldened some people who thought, "well if they're giving it this much attention something must be up...". They focused an enormous amount of time on those who chose to disrupt town hall meeting instead of making their concerns heard in a civil and productive manner. The point is, that while the media should have been providing the truth about what insurance companies do to their clients or what out of control health care costs were going to do to our economy or even encouraging individuals to take personal responsibly for their health in terms of making lifestyle changes, they just focused on nonsensical BS.

We suffered from all that hoopla....those oppose to reform of any kind were able to just stand by fueling fires and not be challenged.

I saw this yesterday and I think it sums up they hypocrisy that is slowly taking over our political system. When are we ordinary citizens going to say to our representatives and our media that "we're not going to be spoon fed lies and nonsense anymore...when you lie or contradict yourself someone is going to call you out..." it's for the betterment of our country and for the stability of our democracy that something changes in the way we govern and are governed.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26315908/#35941339