to eliminate open government is news. There have been changes to laws that provide public access to federal records; I consider this to be disturbing news.

The media coverage failed the American people during the Iraq War and the siege on Fallujah. The big news story should have been the large civilian death toll. It wasn’t, though. What was reported was a subversion of truth and that is not news.

Election coverage is news. This is not very good news, but news nonetheless. I think it is news when a Republican election supervisor manipulates the vote. I might be wrong, but I don’t think so.

I think that the surveillance of the American people is huge news. I am not the only one that thinks that, either. There are a lot of patriotic Americans that think the news of wiretapping and the monitoring of activist groups is disgusting.

I wonder why the news that the United States actually used the devastating Southeast Asian tsunami for a military advantage never made it to the masses. I don’t have to ponder this question too long, though, because I know why. The people that run our government tell us what the news is.

Last week, America reported that someone had been arrested in a ten year old murder case. This is news, but it isn’t bigger news than a volcanic eruption in Ecuador or the illegal bombing of Lebanon by Israel. Those are bigger news stories and I won’t apologize for my opinion on that matter.


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