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From a Man Who Married His Adopted Daughter
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Frank Salvato
Paris - Quirky U.S.
film director Woody Allen says President Bush's argument for war against
Iraq is unconvincing, according to French weekly newspaper Journal du
Dimanche. Allen told the newspaper in an interview that Bush had squandered
America's post-September 11th goodwill because "he has no idea about
anything."
Now, this is amazingly disturbing. Has it actually come to this, where
the media believes that the opinion of a once talented comedian whose
era has disappeared deserves more consideration than the President of
the United States? How has it come to pass that society finds it important
to care about what this pedophile has to say about anything let alone
his opinion on our country’s leader.
I am here to say that it is unacceptable for the mainstream media to hold
the opinions of such societal elitists as Woody Allen, Alec Baldwin, Cher,
Barbara Streisand and Rosie O’Donnell, just to name a few, higher
than the opinions
of those in a position to know every aspect of those subjects that face
our country today. And no, this is not a one-time media slip-up. It happens
daily. Alec Baldwin says he will move if George W. Bush is elected (he
hasn’t of course). Cher uses profanity to describe George W. Bush.
Rosie O’Donnell ignores every offer to explain the world issues
and instead attacks George W. Bush the man in spite of the truth. And
now we have Woody Allen, a one-time comedian and once talented director
who turned the corner of morality and divorced his wife in order to marry
his adopted step-daughter (a societal blunder the likes of Roman Polanski)
who believes that there is a place in the world for him to criticize the
leader of the free world, a man I may add who is in a healthy marriage,
who attends church regularly and who nurtures and advocates being decent
to our fellow man and who daily asks us all to give of ourselves for those
less fortunate than ourselves. I blame the mainstream media for allowing
this to happen.
Progressively the
mainstream media has departed from where it came from. As our country
was fighting to free itself from the tyranny of the British Crown all
those years ago the media served a purpose that was noble, although I
am sure the Brits didn’t take a liking to them at the time. The
media shined a light on the truth going to great pains to make sure that
they enlightened the public honestly, fairly and without bias. In those
early years as well as in the years that ensued they were an integral
part of a noble cause. Throughout time they stepped forward to uncover
greatness the likes of Lindbergh and Pasteur and to expose amazing heresy
like the horrors of the Holocaust and the Khmer Rouge. It even exposed
the evils of a paranoid administration with the discovery of Watergate*
but this is where the frail gray line of nobility and self-serving elitism
was shattered.
Today we are inundated on a daily basis with newspapers and news shows
that are more interested in the almighty dollar through ratings and circulation
than in informing the public truthfully, with integrity and without any
“spin”. Today it is left up to the individual to try and disseminate
what is truthful and what could be retracted to weeks later on page thirty-two
two in a small box under the electrolysis ad. Today, in my opinion, the
mainstream media has no honor, no integrity and no intension of enlightening
the public with honesty and the truth. Today the media is all about the
business of making more money, achieving higher ratings, a better circulation
and getting the story first (and that’s just what they are today
– stories) no matter how inaccurate or inane it may be. Today to
find nobility and an elevated sense of societal morality and ethics in
the mainstream news media is a rarity, and that is a very sad statement
indeed.
But today as I read that Woody Allen gets the spotlight from the mainstream
news media so he can spew his warped and misguided thought that our President
“has no idea about anything” I chastise the mainstream news
media but wonder if it isn’t our fault, the readers and viewers
that is. If we were not to accept their insults, leftist spin and innuendo,
if we stood up and demanded the truth, if we expressed our anger to the
media and their sponsors for being fed non-truths and editorialized opinions
disguised as news items, if we stopped buying the rags that express the
opinions of those who I equate to being warts upon our earth (Allen, Baldwin,
Streisand, etc.) perhaps they would have to return to the noble adventure
that once was our American news media. Until then I guess we will have
to hear the ravings of those who would marry their children. Right Mr.
Allen?
* (I believe that Richard Nixon did more for the good of this country
by elevating our relationship with China and Russia than he ever could
have done harm to it with Watergate)
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