Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

It is reasonable to assume that we all like variety. Look around and you see all sorts of things that support that idea. We have a number of manufacturers of cars, we have all kinds of places to eat and all sorts of foods. We do not all look for the same things in our relationships with others. The list is too long to attempt to mention all of the things that are different because we do not tend to all go for the same things.
The government has broken up monopolies so that more than one of any service we need is not controlled by one company, the phone, tv, gas and again the list is long. Yet for all of that we seem to be headed toward having one news source because a man is buying up newspapers and smaller radio and tv stations and changing their focus of putting out news, for the sake of news, to promote his ideas and ideals.
He has major outlets in all our bigger cities and even in London. His brand of propaganda is spouted as truth and he is doing his best to get his will to be the direction we will vote and ultimately travel as a nation. No one seems to be bothered by this assault on view point, you either believe or you don’t.
Each time we decide to go to a store we make a choice, each time you go to church you have a choice, each time you pick up a newspaper you should have confidence that what you read is actually a factual article. When the independence of the media is taken away for the sake of one man’s personal values the story gets changed.
Just like the government broke up the Bell Telephone monopoly they need to break up the media monopoly. The combining of grocery stores is not dangerous but the single man control of the media is. Without scrutiny bias becomes the name of the game. Don’t believe it, look at the Supreme Court which went from an honorable panel of justices to a corrupt group of people in black robes that feel they can usurp the power of the people for personal gains.
If thinking for yourself is important and all you want is the facts in our current world you are being fed the facts according to one man. Others have managed to get followers and in most cases these leaders have brought their followers to a deadly end. The man behind the media manipulation may not be feeding anyone kool-aid but he is still leading those that follow to a destructive end.