The Media: "Capturing eyeballs to sell to advertisers"

"The press has the power to stimulate people to clean up the environment, prevent nuclear proliferation, force crooked politicans out of office, reduce poverty, provide quality health care for all people and even to save the lives of millions as it did in 1984. But instead, we are using it to promote sex, violence, and sensationalism and to line the pockets of already wealthy media moguls" - Carl jensen, "What Free Press?" Censored 2000 The Years Top Censored Stories (NY Crown Publishing)

I have reached a point of complete disillusionment with the media, with the idea of gaining any kind of information- in a world where Fox News can publish a story linking Al Qaeda to the Mexican Mafia - thanks only to the voice of a single source - a southerner who called Fox up to talk about a "suspicious Middle Eastern looking guy and a very suspect Mexican man in Texas talking in a bar". I completely dispair.

Thank God for the BBC.