Mad as Hell

I have had it!
Just like the guy in the old movie Network, I am mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore.
I am an honor graduate from a renowned journalism school, and have won awards for my journalistic efforts. For years I have defended journalists when they are criticized as "liberal" and "biased." I always countered with, "I am a journalist, and all the journalists I know truly seek the truth!"
Well, maybe.
I'm not so sure anymore.
Tonight I was listening to National Public Radio. The evening news ("All Things Considered") had gone off, but as I was busy doing housework, I just left it on. A program I did not recognize came on. Next thing I knew, they were interviewing a man who sounded American who was involved with building a mosque in South America.
The interviewer pointed out that this mosque appeared on the front of the Wall Street Journal this week. Then he proceeded to chat away with the man who had helped build the mosque. They discussed the challenges the Muslims faced explaining who they were and what they believed to another culture. If I'm not mistaken, I think I caught a favorable comment about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad -- who has spoken of our nation in a derogatory manner and encouraged violence against our ally, Israel.
Point is, we are at war with Muslims! A Muslim just slaughtered over a dozen of our best and brightest, as he pretended to be one of us! Why, dear God, are we speaking of these people in glowing terms?
Then this NPR program went on to have a look at Venezuela and the problems it's facing. Hugo Chavez, socialist president of that country, only this week announced that he is ready to go to war with the United States and our ally, Colombia! Why, dear God, are we talking about him and his country as if they are old buddies?
These people are our enemies! Why are we being subjected to brainwashing by our national media, to make us have a favorable opinion of someone who hates us and wants us to disappear from the face of the earth? Because it is politically correct? Because it makes us look intellectual and sophisticated?
It makes me want to vomit.
Perhaps the small, local media outlets seek the truth. Maybe.
Maybe the small newspapers, the small radio stations, don't seem as strident in pushing an agenda because they are small. They have a smaller, more volatile audience...people who are more pragmatic because they are not rich, they are not "sophisticated" -- people who struggle to raise their families on a shrinking dollar while their children risk their lives fighting in a war across the sea. They can't afford the luxury of patting their enemies on the head. They see clearly, and would simply cease to support local media that swung too crazily to the left.
Maybe in their own, small way, the local papers are just as biased, just as politically correct. We just don't notice it as much.
Don't care. They've all lost my support. I'm sick of it. I'm mad as hell.