Media controllers are getting more aggressive.

Yesterday after hearing that C-SPAN2 was moved off the basic cable line-up (furthering the vacuum of important government information for the public) I picked up my remote control and selected the option to automatically program my TV channels.

The TV cycles through the channels looking for a clean signal, then programs the channel into its memory. I noticed that Channel 15 for C-SPAN1 was one of the channels that was not programmed. The channel still exists, but my TV's programming option did not recognize it.

So both channels 14 and 15 disappear from the lineup. I have to go back and manually add channel 15 to my TV's memory. This is happening, coincidentally, during the senate hearings about the failing banking and finance industry.

I can easily make a conspiracy out of this issue linking corporate mentality to the suppression of public affairs information that every voter should see. They have been going after PBS for years because of Bill Moyers and programs like Frontline.

So double-check your TV's cable channels to make sure you are not missing the important channels upon which you need to make your next election decisions, and please bookmark http://www.cspan.org so you at least have internet access to unbiased coverage of government information.

American News Project update

I just posted a new video at sageofspringfield.com from American News Project, of an interview with Dan Rather and Jim Lehrer that.

The piece titled "The Gospel according to Lehrer and Rather" by Davin Hutchins confirms my suspicions about the news media.

The Media on Barak Obama

Tim Russert and guests on NBC's Meet The Press were discussing the possibility that Barak Obama might be stuck talking about race, as if they themselves and the rest of the news media were not responsible for forcing him to do so.

This is called the "invisible stir-stick" effect. The news media creates the controversies they discuss on Sunday morning news programs, by distorting the context of the information they gather.

Think about the story of the story. A short look at MediaMatters.org will be highly educational.

Avoid a Web of misinformation.

Before you take the advice of any mainstream syndicated columnist, take a look at the publisher, then take a look at who owns the publisher.

The Columbia Journalism Review has a database of media ownership at its website.
http://www.cjr.org/resources/

You can google "Who owns CNN?" or "Who Owns ____." Then go to the link above and look at what else is owned by the parent company.