Desperate to be considered useful.

As long as the possibility of being removed from office exists, those dependent on taking money from taxpayers have to appear to be doing something useful. They created the illusion of “helping” by inventing endless imaginary problems. “Bees are disappearing.” exemplifies the recurring “problems” that fill most of the media output. Global Warming, the largest of their lies, is another. New “food pyramids” reappear every few years. Acid Rain came and went, but still resurfaces periodically.

More people understand that the media is largely a system to regurgitate lies to benefit those who control it. There is little to be gained by paying any attention to “news”, except to see where the latest attacks upon us are being launched. It is not intelligent to repeat or pay attention to such phrases as: “If only the media would look at this or that or the other thing, they would see both sides.”

Only the simple entertain even lingering beliefs that those who can hire and fire media staffers are more interested in anything resembling truth than in making their employers wealthier.

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