Once you start looking critically at mainstream media, it becomes hard to go back to being a passive reader/viewer/listener. Today’s Columbus Dispatch is a perfect example.
On the front page towards the bottom you will see an article titled “Ohio’s Springfield to Homer: ‘Pick me!’ – Cities of same name vie for movie premiere“
You may think nothing of it, although it’d be nice if you thought “that’s a front-page worthy story? Is that all that’s going on in the world right now?”
Next we’ll flip to the last page of the main section, A10. Along with a large ad for some great mattress deals you’ll see an article titled “Hearings start for Guantanamo detainees.”
I guess the optimist in me would have hoped that the beginning of “a series of closed hearings yesterday to determine whether 14 alleged terrorist leaders … should be declared ‘enemy combatants’ who can be held indefinitely and prosecuted by military tribunals” would have garnered more attention and been placed on the front page. I mean these trials are UNCONSTITUTIONAL after all. Not to mention the TORTURE at Guantanamo Bay that most turn a blind eye to for fear of having to act on their cognitive dissonance and betrayal of humanity.
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