News About the News

The mass media as a whole is quite the institution, yes, but I think the worst arm of that brain strangling octopus is televised news. A newspaper cannot shout at you or draw you in with sound and light. A news website can be avoided by not navigating to it. Televised news though, is a truly corrosive substance. It is not educational. It is not enriching. It serves no purpose but to cloud the mind from real matters. How is the wedding of a Kardashian, the child of two pop stars or a royal wedding truly more important than issues such as the passing of NDAA, the looming threat of SOPA and PIPA and the general overall erosion of the rights and liberties of all people?

The easy answer is that this issues aren't more important. The news convinces you otherwise, though. Some news items that become more important than the slow and and hardly noticeable oppression of humankind are:

-Celebrity Babies
-Woes of Politicians
-Royal Weddings
-Alarmist Health Scares
-Christmas Tragedies
-Lottery Winnings

The list goes on. These news items should be avoided at all costs (unless for research) and are unfit for human consumption. They cloud and strangle the mind. They are designed to shift focus away from issues that affect every average middle or lower class working person. The most ironic news obsession as of recent was the royal wedding (and all of the royal this and that from babies to wedding rings that the wedding has spawned). Some working people are so obsessed and in love with royal affairs that they forget the royal family is oppressive and uncaring toward them. Fans of the royal wedding shouldn't forget that they were purposely not invited to the wedding (or the high living) because they are working class. They also paid for a good portion of the wedding (read: security to keep the proles out).

 
Do not let televised news pollute and destroy your thought process. Pick up a book, engage in conversation, be part of a big idea. Write! Paint! Occupy your own mind, do not let anyone else! It's been said again and again but it does not make it any less true: the mass media is controlled by a ruling class that use it to push their agenda of oppression and destruction.

Occupy your mind. Resist mass media.

Use alternative news sources:
http://www.democracynow.org/
http://www.disinfo.com/
http://socialistworker.org/