Our Media Is Not Serving Us Well

Twenty percent of Americans think President Barack Obama is a muslim. This number has actually increased since he became president. There have been a number of news stories yesterday and today talking about this and the fact that a surprisingly large number of people still deeply believe that Obama was not born in America.

Especially the dishonest and partisan right wing media like Fox has stopped trying to inform Americans of the actual facts. To increase their profits and to help out the richest members of society, they are now frequently boldly just making up stories. In the bad old days we called this dishonesty or lying, and it would not have been tolerated.

A democracy cannot function properly without well informed citizens. This radical increase in dishonest propaganda by the right wing media will only harm America. The challenge is how to stop this intentional lying without violating the constitutionally guaranteed rights to free speech and a free press.

Obama supposedly used to be a constitutional scholar, teaching college courses on it. If he was not so severely lacking in backbone and strength of character, he would strenuously combat this intentional dishonesty in the media. He is so afraid of getting sand kicked in his face, I guess he will continue compromising the country's sacred values on this issue also.

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