Former President Bill Clinton Calls for a Return to "Big 3" News Networks?

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Can I relate to what you just said. "Showbiz" is all TV news has become. It is absolutely good for no one. Maybe it never was. Maybe no news network/journalists ever offered solid, consistent, and objective rebuttal on the same program. The ideal of "just the facts please" was replaced by "what are the ratings or demographics watching us and which anchor hosted opinions/attitude will maintain this market share."

I believe the main media has become complicit with the powers that be. Here's a quote from trends forecaster Gerard Calente on what he calls the "media morons":

And the bigger they got, the more untouchable they became. TV Money Honeys, fast-talking finance finaglers, Nightly News anchors, Sunday Morning Beltway Blowhards, and Talk Show Tough Guys genuflected, scraped, kissed up and bowed down before those magnificent men in their money machines.

My son is a news producer for CNN International working in Atlanta. TV is always a hot holiday topic. He moved up the TV ranks quickly after graduating from U of Minnesota with a degree in broadcast journalism. ABC, NBC, Fox...It didn't matter-moving up did. I visited his workplace CNNI recently. Hundreds of people looking at computer screens all day long. They make pretty fair money, yet It doesn't seem pleasant. Information, information, information...Fresh air and sunlight is more important to me. He comes home a zombie.

Amen to that. From your keypad to God's ears ! I voted for Jimmy Carter,
Bill-I swear I didn't have sex with that woman-Clinton, and Musolini Nobama.
At least I got it right on the first try. 1 out of 3 is still a reflection of America
on the decline though. The OWS protest movement knows why. Clinton
came to the Syracuse airport in 2010 to support our Democratic H.R.Rep.
who wasn't a bad fellow. I kind of wish I'd voted for him in 2008 instead of
voting for Nobama. The Congressman voted to audit the Fed. I genuinely
liked him, and I hope he runs again. I do truely belive the man has integrity
and we need more of that sort on both sides of the isle. But somehow he
made friends with H.R.Rep Rangel, who sits on the Trilateral Comisssion.
I'd like to think that someone steered him wrong to corrupt or at least
conflict him. The House tried to expel Rangel for multiple ethics charges,
but because Rangel cleverly dug into the Banksters' camp, Organized
Crime saved the day for Rangel. But his day is coming...Clinton figured
the same-to dig into the Banksters' enemy camp by cozying up to Goldman
Sachs. An exec for that infamous Bank is Clinton's inlaw now, after marrying
into his family. That's how political alliances were arranged from before
feudal times.

The Clintons were lawyers with political ambitions from the get go. They ex
emplify why Wall St=NWO. Hence my comment of Clinton's pose in the photo.
If silent pictures could talk that says, subliminaly, Hmmm, I wonder how I can
get the world, my basketball, past the opposition's guards to make net in their
court. Pathetic. Goldman Sachs told the Government of Greece how they could
conceal their true debt to get them to join the European Union knowing they'd
be puppeteered to be the first domino to collapse the E.U. economicly, then
have the USA bail them out, in the same way Goldman Sachs criminal pig
Paulson puppeteered the bank bailout of the 2008 meltdown after lying to
Congress, then turning around and saying the opposite to Bankers. Many
people are still under the impression that .75 Trillion $ bailout was all of it.
HA ! That was the tip of the iceberg. It turned out to be $16 Trillion which had
the Rothschild's Fed printing presses overheating to flood the world with.
That left a money shortage here in the USA, hence the event horizon of the
Depression we've been in since Dec. 2007. The idiots think starting a WW3
with Iran will pull the USA out of it. They never caught on that the Rothschilds
manipulated WW1, and WW2 behind the scenes by funding the beligerents.
The OWS protest movement isn't merely a crusade for reform, it's also a
crusade for the world Peace the Popes have been advocating for 2,000
years now. Merry Christmas. Lets hope they deliver their message of Peace
in D.C. circa Martin Luther King Memorial Day to avert the one that will finish
us all. There are nutcases who think they can take refuge in Cheyene Mountain
to wait for the smoke to clear. Goes to show how they value We the People.
The Swiss Govt. has provisions for all their people, not simply their big shots.

I agree 99% with that. +^d

Great article. Oh Bill is far from senile. This is the mindset that infects government, control of the people. The internet, and many other non internet news sites, cannot be controlled, hence the efforts and calls for such controls either by SOPA or the so-called Fairness Doctrine. This is why we must lead and participate in, movement toward more individual freedom and limited government.

I'd prefer to watch the Russians' Tass, Pravda, or Isvestia TV networks
than I would NBC, CBS, or ABC, which has to be the THE worst of all of
those turkey brains. The Russians have allways known what Government
run TV was all about. They have one word for " truth ", another for " news "
when they formed Tass, and Pravda. Hence the Russian saying: " There is
no truth in the " news " you hear, any more than there's anything new in
the so called truth you hear " Why ? HA ! As if anyone need ask. Because
there's no Tass in Pravda, and no Pravda in Tass. That's why.
Paul McCartney explained it as " back in the U.S., back in the U.S., back in
the U.S.S.R. " We get the bull's ass end of any info after the C.I.A. have
" sanitized " it. Honest news is too germy for the sheeple to maintain their
health after being read to like kiddies. I seriously call to question how anyone
can consider themselves a mature adult yet watch those who call themselves
mature adults read to them like children read a bedtime story fairy tale to
the sheeple who " can't be bleat. " As if. Baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah.
Humbug. Merry Christmas, Connipae.

Sadly, they move the masses along like sheep, moved along to the wrongs. Everything judged in the 'court of public opinion', then everyone just moves along to the wrongs. People left the Bush administration and wrote books about wrongs. They got a few news cycles, then we just moved along, as though the 'facts' they were telling, were not even worthy of discovery. On a couple of occassions, they even blatantly said, 'it's time to move along', because the story wasn't just going away. Sadest fact is, we did.

Merry Christmas to you as well. No humbug! It ain't over! We just gotta stop moving along to the wrongs. Honesty should be a requirement of our politicians and our media. People should be held accountable. They say the stuff 'out loud', because they know there is no accountability.

Have some more Kool-Aid, my friend. We'll have this conversation some other time. :)

Good rule of thumb, if what you have to say is longer than the article itself .... you see where I'm going with this.

Watch me copy this meal with my binary magic. Watch me turn that High Definition cinema format into to complete crap quality and beam it to a country where they don't like free and open discussion of current events and would be lucky to see it ten years from now.

Ignore me while I build a massive monopoly, get my workers doing 16 hour shifts, pay them peanuts, fire them, then make a cool $1 Billion while they have their homes taken from them. I'm laughing to the bank, they are crying out the front holding a hat with a sign around their neck. Now watch me screw a few artists and promote gangsta rap and skanky bitches instead of thought provoking talented musicians. Listen to me rape your ear drums and stupefy your mind until you believe my bullshit arguments. Pretty soon I will control all information dissemination and with it your pathetic minds.

You said it all when you stated "Things are not what they seem". . . damn straight, invariably there are "vested" interests. . . and Blarney Prank is jumping ship as well. . .
The Rats are fleeing!

Good Idea

Hah! . . that's totally cold! . . Bwahahaha

It's not that far off. The very best large scale, flat screen TV's I've seen,
which are the easiest on the eyes, are the Smart TVs I think Samsung
makes. They're made so that people can connect FIOS to them. People
can surf the net to find whatever movie they want to record on their DVR.
With internet capable TV, it won't be long before they make H.D. computer
monitors conventional or the larger scale as TVs are. The crossover is
inevitable with Blue Ray DVD units built into computer towers to record
& playback H.D.feed displayable over H.D.monitors, conveyed by wide
band internet signal.

I agree. +^d

Here's an idea . They are public airwaves , let the public have them . stop them out to real people who are from THIS country , for the common good only . Teachers could teach classes on TV . Lectures could be given . Safety procedures disseminated . You know like "americas most wanted catches criminals ? If there were NO advertising on it , i predict people would , like myself , want to watch it . It wouldn't happen , until they abandon it altogether ....

Unfortunately they wont even allow vc2 on current anymore.

Right on. Did you know TV was originaly envisioned as a way to teach
kids schooling who couldn't get to classes in the city or village ? Verdad.
Kids who were snowed in, and would have trouble making the school bus
were thought of in that altruistic vision of what TV should be as far back
as 1939, when the first TV camera filmed an American baseball game live.
But it never happened. In the same way the military seizes on new inventions
for destructive purposes, the big money interests seized on TV as a way
to make obscene profits with their destructiveness. The ABC network is the
biggest offender of all the commercial Corporate TV networks. They cornered
the market in greasing G people to sell them what belongs to us, never was
theirs to sell once the first digital frequencies came out after digital TV was
made the new thing. ABC's assholes sat John McCain down to tell him which
end was up from the time he announced his candidacy before the 2008
election. The entire ABC network is one big Racketeer Influenced Corrupt
Organization. I would never view their Piracy for all the money in the world.
I'm looking forward to civily prosecuting the ABC TV network in my Enterprise
Corruption case against their RICO affiliates WSYR & their holding company
Ackerly Communications based in the Town of Dewitt, in Onondaga county
New York since they merged with the Syracuse FBI in 1980 to attack me.

As Thomas Jefferson said: " Whenever any Government seeks to own what
is stricly the property of citizens, it seeks to control their will thereby. " What
more effective way than through mass hypnosis by means of subliminal mind
control. I graduated as a Psychology major enough to know. I have well written
books on hypnosis. Corporate TV networks were the first weapon of infowar
the C.I.A. seized control over in 1947 when the C.I.A. was begun. By the 1970s
CIA Director Helms told the public brazenly " the CIA owns every TV news
personality of any prominence ". Digital TV was only a means of implementing
radio freqency I.D. chips in citizens homes without the FBI's 1st degree Felony
Armed criminal Trespass. So what it was planned to be in 1939 before WW2
became opposite that by 1949 when George Orwell's scenario of 1984 was
written. So today we have the classic war without end TV surveilance culture
Orwell envisioned. Instead of the altruistic vision of American values taught to
young people, we now witness the UnAmerican vision of totalitarianism taught
to hoodwink young people inbto misbelieving what they do is lawful. I'm also a
graduate of a law school. I know what they do has all the m.o. of Organized
Crime outlawed by the State of New York & the U.S. despite the dogshit who
watch ABC. I understand where you're coming from Artemis 6. I sympathize.
The C.I.A. uses Facebook as their database via the Internet now that Utube has
made TV the obsolete shit that it realy always was. As one of the last of the baby boomers born in 1949, I've studied the decay of commercial Corporate TV all my
life. What was born dead can only continuously rot, and stink.

Aw , man, that sucks !

What i would REALLY LIKE , is for the people , NOT Disney , to OWN Youtube . Forever .

I would too.

Alex Jones is a great source, he taught me a lot.

Sad, but true.

It's very easy to support something, but difficult to question that support.

generalizing people in that way is just as bad . Here is a rule of thumb that is good to go by . Verify the truth of a story with 3 independent sources . Before you post .

and no one here will do that.
that is a very good rule.

I completely agree.

Isn't that the spot they played on "Saturday Night Live" ? They played it only once , 'cause they got a special phone call ... from the angry network .

good posting thanks

I agree. Would you trust mega corporations not to lie and distort the facts?

"It's the land of the brave, and the home of the free.
Where the less you know, the better off you'll be".
W. Zevon

Never in a million years would anyone intelligent call the mindless fools
who vegetate in front of their boob tubes thinkers, bro. And they'd have
to be thinkers to have thoughts in their head that anyone could control.
I'd like to consider them as Alec Baldwin did in his HULU adverts some
while back. Getting what's left of their pathetic brains sucked out and
being left with a vacuum in which they accept hypnotic commands w/o
knowing or caring. Watching TV is their way to get mellow 'cause their
heads are full of jello. Yeah that's right, J E L L O. TV watchers are so
repugnant to thinking, intelligent people that I seriously doubt any of
us who are intelligent would piss on TV audiences if they were on fire.