The True Bias of All Media

There have been a lot of article written about media bias, but I want to address a different type of bias that all media outlets, whether print, radio or television, participate in. That bias is News Access, Content and Context Control (NAC3). Rather than allowing the public to see any and all images, or to hear or read all of what public figures are saying, they “edit for content”, “interpret for context” and prevent full and ready access to all of the relevant information.

It would be a different world if all of the pictures of Muslims dancing in streets after 9/11 were shown. It would be a different world if all of the speech of world leaders were printed in their entirety. Where are the pictures of the genocides in Africa? Where are the pictures of the conditions in North Korea? Where are the pictures of the people falling from the towers on 9/11? Where are the speeches of the militant clerics in the Middle East? Do we not have a right to know and see?

If the media truly supported the right of the people to be informed, then why are they afraid to let us know everything? Instead of broadcasting Press Secretary Snow’s White House press conferences and letting the American people hear for themselves what the White House has to say, their little talking heads keep up an incessant and useless chatter about what they think is going on, and then when it comes time for the usual round of assinine and ridiculous questions from their press representatives, they cut right to the scene so we have to listen to the stupidity that flows with such vigor from the roots of their pseudo-intellectualism.

It is amazing that in the supposed golden information age, our media has become the bastion of NAC3. They will not let Americans hear the news for themselves without providing context. We don’t need it! Americans are perfectly capable of making up their own minds about the consequences or implications of what they hear, read and see.

That is the true bias of all media in our day and age. It is the bias of elitism shown without apology through their uniform and predictable NAC3. They think that they have to tell the American people what to think by virtue of their “informed-ness” and “intelligence”. It would appear that they believe Americans cannot think for themselves, but in reality they are afraid that Americans will act in opposition to their personal goals and desires, so they must (since they are the Elite) control what information we have access to and “spin” everything that they allow us to have access to.

It is a sad time for our nation.