subterranean homesick blues

So with my first blog I thought I'd cover the most obvious issues with the world around us, specifically the American media. It has to be one of the biggest jokes of all time, I mean turn on any "news" channel and it's the same garbage forced down the throats of the American populous, like a feeding frenzy of mindless cows ready for slaughter. A small tidbit about the media in general and the mass production of it through television to the consumer, how you're made to feel you need the deluxe package with 4 gazillion channels and nothings ever on, but that's just a minute issue. Back to the "news", if you are able to compare a foreign news channel with an American one such as the embarrassment of Fox News and CNN and company, you can see that the things that we are told are so trivial it's disgusting. The objectiveness in American broadcast journalism has disappeared, the special interest groups and major cooperation funding these channels tell them what to say so there's no more room to think or filter information for yourself it's all spoon fed to us like morons(politically incorrect). Even the newspapers are infiltrated by the same people who own the television channels, which is almost a single person(Rupert Murdoch) who owns a ridiculous amount of the world-wide media markets. So with all this singular control on every single market, it's making the consumer a marionette puppet of sorts, which isn't as bad as a robot quite yet. So with all this mass control into the hands of the few(opposite of what our country was founded on) we are given limited exposure to politics, art, music,literature(my God to the few who even read anymore). When you look at the news it's like you should sit down and watch with a number 2 pencil and a scan-tron sheet fill in the blanks for the things you find appealing put it in a machine it will then proceed to print out a label for you, "Republican" or "Democrat", "Liberal" or "Conservative", or just "Don't fit interest group, don't say anything. Shhh"and then you follow the fodder to the voting booths and you pull the lever for whatever you're label tells you, and there goes the American system. So whoever said a couple hundred years ago that it is a citizens duty to revolt every 60 some odd years to maintain the balance in America, I firmly agree.