Some media quotes

[Preechr]

Back in the earlier part of the last century, your average metropolitan area would generally be served by 15-20 or more newspapers, each one with it's own slant on the news of the day. It was much more like the internet is now, only on paper, and gay. The problem is not that the media is biased... there's no way to assure that we could EVER have a media that's not biased in some way or another... The problem is that the people of today are morbidly retarded.

If your mind is an empty well, anything anyone wants to drop in it has exaggerated value. We think by comparing new information to knowledge we already possess. Let's use Geggy as an example: He woke up intellectually one day to read an allcaps blurb on how 9/11 was an inside job manufactured by the Bush Crime Family. He had no personal knowledge with which to compare that shocking new information, and he liked the sound of it, so he categorized it as fact.

Deep down inside, he knows the websites he is reading are a bunch of crap drizzled out by lifeless blobs of parasitic goo with fantastic imaginations and no real connection to how the world really works because they've spent most of their adult lives so far in grandma's basement chewing hotpockets and pecking away at their keyboards in search of the e-female of their dreams they know is out there somewhere frantically searching for their love... but the truth probably hits a bit too close to home and the fantasy is just so much more appealing...

That's basically about 50% of America. It's sad, but entirely in line with the history of other great civilizations, though the internet part is a recent addition. The luxury of a truly free and economically vibrant society (which go hand and hand) has a pretty bad effect on it's citizens over time. When we are free, we are, unfortunately, free to live as self-destructively and nihilistically as we wish.

Journalists are, of course, just as fucked up as the rest of their society, but they are not the problem. We are.