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Does ‘News’ Analysis Achieve Anything?

Two tier legal system

Can you imagine if you or I was really smart person and commander in chief of security of our country, with decades of lawyerly background behinds us, and we put top secret emails on our home – yes home server, and then claimed they didn’t know what ‘c’ meant, then covered for our husband’s illicit affairs – and then had the audacity to run for president, and not at least get a slap on the wrist but be revered and adored for your actions just because you happen to simultaneously project an image of being a sweet grandmother who couldn’t possibly be in it for the money? It would never happen. In fact, I have a friend who’s elderly mother WAS placed behind bars for a few years for getting unintentionally dragged into a tiny amount of tax evasion. There is no excuse for it, but let’s get one thing straight; this is NOTHING – NOTHING in comparison to the back-handers we see politicians constantly getting away with, day in day out under the guise of ‘business’, ‘charity’ and a thousand other appearances of light.

One rule for us, another for them

Or can you imagine if you or I had done one tenth of what we see happening in politics generally, with them all lying and covering for one another in broad daylight. Would we still be free? Of course not. And then there’s all the talking heads or twits as I prefer to call them on Twitter – endlessly chattering about who is and isn’t guilty of x,y or z, as if they are going to have any real effect on the outcome, or the real powers behind the throne.

Twitter – the site that makes twits of us all

 When I first saw Twitter I thought it was a dreadful idea – people sharing what style of coffee they were having at breakfast in a few words – so I knew it would be a huge success with people these days having attention spans slightly longer than birds. But then I felt there was some light as I realised it could bypass the biased news monopolies and give us instant real news updates, but alas no… it just morphed into a hyper-gossip service and back-biting haven on steroids. And in any case, I always knew most news was exacerbating world problems, and not making us all more aware and therefore ‘socially responsible’ as they might claim. Sure it’s good we know that there are tyrants out there, but when all is said and done, I think endless bad news makes us all desensitised to it and there is no longer any shock or revolt. Probably what our adversary wants come to think of it. Can you imagine God instituting ‘news’ and gossip networks as they are? Never.

Taking wasting time to a whole new level

My little rant here is wast of time enough, but unbeknownst to the users of it, Twit-ster really is a total waste of time and energy and resources – there I said it. The irony is that Twitter literally makes twits of all its users, most of whom feel pressured to use it and would give it up in a heartbeat if they felt they had a choice (which of course they do, and just need a little more guts to kick this site and the habit of endless gossiping and false witnessing into touch once and for all).

Futile

So it’s futile in my humble opinion to hope that our systems of justice – though they are pretty good in the West comparatively – as they are based on biblical principles – will be upheld for politicians as they are for us or the opposition in the long term or even in most cases in this life. And as we all know, this kind of double standard, and calling good evil and evil good is foretold (I prefer the word ‘foretold’ than ‘predicted’ as the latter indicates that something may or may not happen) in the Bible.

Publicity is what those that commit violence want; shutting down ‘news’ stations would shut down much of it instantly

The question is though, could we live without our daily dose of gossip and bad news? I would argue that it’s the news channels themselves that are largely – or at least partly responsible for the continuance of violence around the world that they report on. Sure they can argue the; ‘it’s in the public’s interest to know what’s going on‘ card – but is it? – and do we really need to know 7 days a week 24/7? What does this endless stream of bad news and corruption ‘analysis’ do to our brains scientifically – I’d like to know? In the main, publicity is all the propagators of these crimes want, to instil fear into their enemies and rest of us globally, and get their message out and the changes they want made through fear.  It’s a fact; NOT publicising their actions would kill a lot of their agendas stone dead in their tracks.

There won’t be any news channels (at least as we know them:) in heaven

I realise this is never going to change, and news channels will not disappear, but I just wanted to put forward my point of view (as if anyone cares:) that as long as news channels showcase and analyse and spread the news of their actions, which incidentally has absolutely zero benefits to doing so (we asked to meditate on what is good and holy and pure) the mess will continue to get worse. This is why I would never want to be a red anchor – a deliverer of bad news. How can darkness ever dispel darkness? It can’t.

Novel Idea; How about The Good News Channel?

Imagine a channel who’s sole purpose was to seek out and find and report on and reward  doers of good works and in doing so propagate good works – yes I said that terrible phrase ‘good works’ not allowed in Christian circles in all of Christendom except the last few decades since we all forgot what the Bible actually says – to do them! It is the good news we should be proclaiming as the light displaced darkness and makes darkness more unpalatable and unacceptable. CCN, Fox and the rest leave us desensitised – just what the devil ordered.



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