A Serious Problem!
The photo-graphic above mocks CNN and the entire Broadcast Industry in the United States for failing to cover the news while descending into "Fake News" and, even more appalling, into left-wing or right-wing propaganda machines. The four CNN anchors depicted above...AND ALL THE CNN AND MSNBC ANCHORS...have evolved into nothing more and nothing less than left-wing, anti-Trump propagandists who rarely bother to actually dispense real news whether it involves Trump or anything else. The other 24-hour U. S. cable "news" operation, Fox, dispenses right-wing, pro-Trump propaganda. And ALL THREE networks are politically correct cowards as extreme anti-Cuba, pro-Batistiano propaganda promoters. America's democracy was founded, as Thomas Jefferson famously opined, on the principle that a free, vibrant and honest news media was its most vital ingredient. Well, Mr. Jefferson didn't envision television's dominance of the U. S. media and he could not possibly have predicted the depths to which America's broadcast "news" industry has sunk.
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The Founding Father who wrote America's Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson, believed the media of his day in the form of newspapers were more important to democracy than government itself. If he were alive today in the dominant and addictive television age, he undoubtedly would cringe at what appears to be a propaganda conspiracy involving CNN, MSNBC, The NY Times, and The Washington Post to destroy the Trump presidency with propaganda instead of covering Trump news as well as other news. {I am not a Trump supporter but I do respect the office of President, the U. S. democracy, and Mr. Jefferson's depiction of the media's role within the basic fabric of the fragile United States government}.
The famous Jefferson quote and the "Fake News" aspect now attached to broadcast journalism in the United States brings to mind the talented broadcast journalist, Cristina Escobar, in Cuba. On Cuban soil and on United States soil in Washington, California and Alabama while covering U.S.-Cuban news or being interviewed herself at speaking engagements, she has made this exact quote: "Journalists in Cuba have more freedom to tell the truth about the U. S. than U. S. journalists have to tell the truth about Cuba."
Americans are programmed to dismiss any opinion coming from Cuba -- even from the extremely intelligent and respected Cristina Escobar -- but for the sake of their democracy, and especially the role broadcast journalism has in it, perhaps they should listen to and heed her critique of the U. S. media.
For the last two decades, Sean Hannity -- with both his ubiquitous radio talk show and his anchor-role on Fox News -- has been one of America's most powerful and influential conservative voices. He has millions of listeners and viewers but, like the left-wingers on the other two Cable News Networks, Hannity primarily just preaches to the choir. I, for example, depend on London's BBC World News for the fairest and best coverage of American news. But, being deeply concerned with the American democracy, I also closely observe the United States media and actually agree with the famous quotes of both Thomas Jefferson and Cristina Escobar. On Fox News and on his equally powerful radio show, Hannity assaults the "Fake News" on CNN and MSNBC, as well he should, but Hannity himself is not immune to such things as the politically correct fake news regarding Cuba and sometimes related to his pro-Trump zealotry. In the report depicted above Hannity was berating Jeff Zucker, the "Fake News" anti-Trump boss at CNN.
In this last week of June-2017, Sean Hannity on Fox has been showing undercover video that got three CNN News operatives fired because they were caught discussing their anti-Trump propaganda obsessions. Hannity and other anchors at Fox revel in pointing out, correctly, that all "news" shows on CNN and MSNBC are obsessed with anti-Trump propaganda while so-called News Networks should be obsessed with gathering and providing legitimate Trump news and other news...just like the BBC does in England.
The photo-graphic above depicts Fox's Sean Hannity verbally berating the "Fake News Chiefs" at NBC and CNN -- Andy Lack and Jeff Zucker. FIND AND DANDY!! But Americans are left with only left-wing or right-wing propaganda machines when it comes to ALL OF THE UNITED STATES "NEWS" NETWORKS.
A prime example of what's wrong with the broadcast news industry in the U. S. is Sharyl Attkisson. She is a great broadcaster and an award-winning investigative journalist, as she proved during 21 years at CBS and during lesser stints at CNN and Fox. But journalists like Sharyl Attkisson are not what the U. S. "news" networks want these days. They want propaganda pundits, non-journalists who are extremely biased with selective propaganda but also crave the airtime to promote themselves as well as their books and other projects. That leaves little or no room for true journalists like the superb Sharyl Attkisson.
Back when true broadcast journalists were on U. S. networks.
Covering real news, Sharyl Attkisson on a B-52 Kosovo mission.
Award-winning broadcast journalist, Sharyl Attkisson.
The must-read book depicted above is the new best-seller written by Sharyl Attkisson who earlier had a best-seller entitled "Stonewalled." As you can detect from looking at the cover above, Sharyl Attkisson agrees with me and many millions of other Americans about the extreme descent of broadcast journalism in the U. S., a monopolistic industry that much prefers hiring biased propaganda-pundits as opposed to real journalists. In this new book Sharyl Attkisson explains how "shady political operatives and fake news" monopolized by the news networks make a mockery of the U. S. democracy. THOMAS JEFFERSON, I BELIEVE, WOULD AGREE WITH HER AND OVER IN CUBA I KNOW THAT A BROADCAST JOURNALIST NAMED CRISTINA ESCOBAR AGREES WITH WHAT SHARYL ATTKISSON IS WRITING ABOUT.
BUT, GUESS WHAT?
Americans and others craving truly great broadcast journalism should become familiar with the husband-and-wife team of Darren Foster and Mariana van Zeller now starring on the Fusion Network.
Important social and news happenings, such as depicted above, are told not by pundit-infested and propaganda-driven "news" networks but by great documentary experts like Mariana van Zeller.
Born in Portugal, Mariana van Zeller became a U. S. citizen in 2015. The parents of a young son named Vasco, Mariana and her photographer-producer husband Darren have criss-crossed the globe to create superb documentaries on the most important, the most sensational, and often the most dangerous news and social events of modern times -- including wars, rebellions and dire criminal enterprises. Last night I watched on the documentary-loving Fusion Channel Mariana's brilliant coverage of the current international terrorism threats. Her documentary "The OxyContin Express" was by far the best coverage of the opioid epidemic in the United States and she bravely exposed the primary culprits behind it. She went to alcohol-devastated Indian reservations in today's American West and her "Rape on the Reservation" documentary told a riveting story that all Americans need to know. Her "Pimp City" documentary brilliantly exposed the Sex Slave Trade that American "news" networks and American politicians generally consider too raw and too pervasive to discuss. And, yes, if there is a Webby or Peabody or Levingston award for great documentaries, rest assured that she has won them.
This black-and-white photo shows Mariana van Zeller in harm's way telling a news story in one of her documentaries, the type news events that need to be told. In stark contrast to the non-journalist propaganda-pundits that saturate the U. S. "News" networks, Mariana has every right to present her "PRESS" credentials because, indeed, she is a BROADCAST JOURNALIST -- and the best you'll find.
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