Freedom of the Press....NOT!!

Where's All the News That's Fit to Print?
TvNewsLIES.org
May 2005
To the Editors of the NY Times:

On the front page of every issue of your publication you proclaim that we will find "All the News That's Fit to Print." Unfortunately you have not lived up to that proclamation for quite some time.

I have a serious question for you people at the NY Times. Where the hell have these headlines been? (See below). Why have we had to cherry pick our news? Why to we have to read buried stories or international publications in order to know what is going on in our own country?

Here are some of the news HEADLINES that have been fit to print, only to be printed by the independent journalist, the blogger and various international publications. While on occasion these blockbuster stories end up buried somewhere in your 5 pound Sunday edition, they should be splattered all over the headlines until the issues that face our nation get addressed.

* NOVAK HIDES WHITE HOUSE TREASON! - REFUSES TO EXPOSE TRAITOR WHO OUTED US AGENT!

* CHALABI PAID MILLIONS FOR LIES ABOUT SADDAM! CIA KNEW ABOUT QUESTIONABLE INTEL! ADMINISTRATION RUMSFELD'S SPECIAL GROUP MASSAGED INTEL!

* RICE AND POWELL: "SADDAM IS NO THREAT!" RICE AND POWELL: "SADDAM IS NO THREAT!" RICE AND POWELL WERE BOTH FILMED DECLARING THAT IRAQ WAS CONTAINED, WAS NOT A THREAT TO ITS NEIGHBORS AND DID NOT HAVE A FUNCTIONING CONVENTIONAL ARMY. DID THEY THEN OR ARE THEY LYING NOW?

* P.N.A.C. EXPOSE! A GROUP OF RADICALS COMPRISE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION. WHO ARE THESE MEN? WHAT IS THEIR AGENDA? DID THEY SET UP THEIR "NEW PEARL HARBOR" ON SEPTEMBER 11TH?

* SADDAM STATUE TOPPLING STAGED! BUSH/PENTAGON STEP UP PROPAGANDA!

* DIEBOLD EXEC PROMISES TO DELIVER OHIO TO BUSH! CAN WE TRUST THE VOTE COUNTERS?

* JESSICA LYNCH STORY A FAKE! BUSH/PENTAGON CONTINUE PROPAGANDA!

* PHOTOS SHOW BOXES UNDER BUSH'S JACKETS! WAS BUSH GETTING HELP DURING THE DEBATE?

* CHENEY HOLDS HIGHJACK DRILLS ON MORNING OF 9/11! WHY WERE WE NOT TOLD!

* BUSH REFUSES TO INVESTIGATE CAUSES OF 9/11! IS HE HIDING SOMETHING

* BUSH FAMILY HAS CLOSE TIES TO BIN LADEN CLAN! JUST HOW CLOSE ARE THEY?

* DOZENS OF BIN LADEN KIN FLOWN OUT OF US AFTER 9/11 DESPITE BAN ON FLIGHTS! MICHAEL MOORE WAS RIGHT!

* TOWER 7 COLLAPSES WITHOUT BEING HIT! SILVERSTEIN ADMITS BUILDING WAS ‘PULLED' WHAT DID HE MEAN?

* PENTAGON ATTACK FILMED – WHITE HOUSE WON'T RELEASE TAPES!

* NO PLANE DEBRIS FOUND AT PENTAGON CRASH! OPENING TOO SMALL FOR AIRLINER WINGS! FILMS FROM SECURITY CAMERAS CONFISCATED!

* 9/11 CRIME SCENE EVIDENCE ELIMINATED! WHITE HOUSE VIOLATES LAW BY DESTROYING EVIDENCE!

* BUSH APPOINTS FELONS – IRAN CONTRA CRIMINALS FIND HOME IN BUSH WHITE HOUSE

* SMOKING GUN DOCUMENT! – BUSH FIXED INTEL TO FORCE WAR

* IT'S OFFICIAL: BUSH LIED! SMOKING GUN! DOC PROVES BUSH FIXED INTEL TO FORCE WAR ON IRAQ!

* NY TIMES APOLOGIZES TO RITTER AND BLIX & EL BARADI! YOU WERE RIGHT!

* 9/11 REPORT DOES NOT ADD UP – CONTAINS HUNDREDS OF DISTORTIONS & OMISSIONS!

* IT'S OFFICIAL: US MEDIA GUILTY BETRAY AMERICA - DEMOCRACY THREATENED BY GREEDY LIARS!

Our nation is in deep trouble. Our democracy is being decimated by the Bush administration. We are virtually living under a coup. Evidence exists that supports the allegation that the past 3 elections including the midterm elections were tampered with. There is overwhelming evidence that our President lied to Congress and to the world for the purpose of starting a war. The Patriot Act, or more accurately the Anti-Constitution act is in essence transforming this nation into a police state, and our news media, the NY Times included, have not only shirked their responsibility to preserve democracy, but have empowered the eradicators of our democracy.

All this while we have as our leaders a group of individuals who had planned this radical agenda years before 9/11/2001. They had openly stated that their agenda would not be accepted by the American people unless there was a "catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor!" These men were responsible for preventing such an event when one took place. As journalists, do you not see the need to look into this? Do you not understand that at the very least, if we take the official story as truth, the events of 9/11 were very preventable. VERY preventable! As journalists can you not identify motive when you see it?

Your failure to act as our guardian has resulted in the creation of a new breed of journalists. Some are called bloggers, others consolidate news from alternative sources. These people have had to assemble the truth from multiple sources because our nation no longer has a single reliable news organization that is either capable or willing to carry the torch of the journalist, our guardian of democracy. For over 5 years you have lied to the American public by intentionally leaving a false impression with them. While you have thrown us bits and pieces of information, we have had to rely for truth on the international journalist and the few dedicated independent journalists scattered around the globe.

The rest of the world should take notice. The American journalism cancer is now spreading to the UK. The BBC has just had their budget slashed by the very people whom they are supposed to hold to account. At the same time, the mind melting FOX News brainwash machine is moving in. Soon, there will be nobody to save us. Soon, only the lone blogger, who has been wrongfully maligned by the uninformed masses with the help of the deceptive and betraying news media, will be the only hope for our future.

And so, I am appealing to the editors of the NY Times to remember Watergate, Daniel Ellsberg, Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite and the real journalists who protected the freedoms and democracy that you are so willingly helping to destroy.

You have the power. Look up the word journalism, reach back to the reasons you became journalists and start practicing journalism once again. Save the world. It's your responsibility.

Comment: While the US media is certainly filtering the news presented to Americans, each of us individually also has the power and the responsibility to become "journalists" and seek the truth behind world events. As the author mentions, many bloggers have picked up the ball and become a refreshing alternative to publications like the New York Times. While we at Signs of the Times really don't think it's very likely that we are going to save the world, we do think it is important to shine the light of truth upon a world that has fallen under the shadow of lies and deception.
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