What Happened to the News Media in America? Part 1 – The Golden Age of News – Defenders of Truth

There was a time between the Civil War and the dawn of the twentieth century when the American news media became so corrupted and so viciously biased that character assassination, fake news, lies, scandalous rumors, bias, racism, and invasions of privacy were the new norm.

In time the few honest news organizations and reporters decided such “Yellow” journalism tactics had to end in order to protect the integrity of the entire news industry that claimed Constitutional protection under the Bill of Rights.

For those of you ignorant of history and blinded by political correctness, the term “Yellow” at the time was used to denote gutless, unethical, immoral and outright lies promulgated by certain publishers and reporters.

The general public was sick of the nonsense and the vast majority no longer believed the news media or press.  To the public, the media had lost all signs of objectivity, were beholden to their advertisers, and intent on destroying opposing views or competition.

The newspaper business started in the 1800’s with papers being affiliated with political parties.  In time the editorial was introduced to allow papers to post articles showing the other party opinion on issues, a technique adopted more to expand the business than to result in fair coverage.  Horace Greeley, founder of the New York Tribune in 1841, is credited with inventing the idea of segregating news reports from opinion writing, by giving opinion its own page.

No national media organizations existed at the time but eventually a group that today is known as the Society of Professional Journalists, founded in 1909, first adopted a Code of Ethics in 1926 covering the print media only.

Although the Code was not enforceable except by voluntary means and had no basis under the law, it was still embraced by all major members of the news media, including radio and television networks and affiliates after the 1973 rewrite.

Three major technological advances would eventually revolutionize the news media industry with the commercialization of the radio in the 1920’s, telephone in the 1930’s, (just 32% of American households had a phone by 1937), and television in the 1950’s (in 1950 just 10% of homes had black and white television, by 1964 a staggering 94% of all homes had television).

Reporting, as a result of the Code of Ethics, took a sharp turn to become popular with the general public.  This tremendous growth in public exposure by television heralded in the Golden Age of reporting, the 1960’s and ‘70’s.

Suddenly television news anchors were among the most trusted people in America, like Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley who drew millions of faithful followers for their nightly news broadcasts.

Announcing death of JFK

Cronkite’s integrity was so beyond reproach he reached 57 million viewers for the Apollo landing on the Moon in 1969.  At the time there were 125 million viewers in a population of 202 million Americans meaning nearly 50% of all viewers were tuned to the CBS News with Cronkite.  In terms of average network followers, the 1969 average was about 31 million, with Cronkite pulling 11 million versus 9 million in each of the other two networks.

The population has tripled since the 1969 Moon landing but what happened to network news watchers?  As noted, 125 million people watched the Moon landing on all three networks, with Cronkite pulling 57 million.  Today, with three times as many people, we still only have about 119.6 million network viewers.

From the 31 million average network news viewers in 1969, it rose to 48 million viewers in 1985, then began a rapid descent.  By 1998 there were 30.4 million network news watchers, but today the number has dropped to about 21 million total watchers.

As for the popularity of anchors, Walter Cronkite was consistently voted the most trusted anchor on television and in 1972, he was named the most trusted man in America in all walks of life.  Today the most trusted network news anchors are only known by 21% of the TV audience.

Watch for Part 2 – The Golden Age of News – Destroyers of the Truth.
  

The Melchizedek Chronicles - The Games People Play - Are you truly free or still living in slavery?

Every night and every day now

Never meaning what they say now

Never saying what they mean now

Now in order to understand the degree we the people are being played by those we have entrusted with our future, we must first understand the real players playing those games.  You see, our system of capitalism includes a host of what I call the Fallen Angels of the universe.  They had to have somewhere to go when they screwed up eons ago.

They come in many sizes, shapes and disguises and are embedded in institutions we rely on for money management, legal advice, federal and state government services, news sources, media outlets, communication managers, advertising agencies, medical help, government regulators, non-profit organizations, banks and brokers, a whole lot of people who think they know what is best for you.

Those groups all represent multi-billion or trillion dollar industries whose greed is dependent upon your pocketbook participation and whose methods long ago made deception palatable to us unsuspecting suckers.  In truth you - we are all the victims of brainwashing, eavesdropping, mental manipulation, psychological molding, egotistical inflation, spiritual distortion and a host of other means that have made us Americans the richest people in human history with the least to show for our wealth since, well, our ancestors of long ago who occupied and then destroyed the Lost Continent of Atlantis.

Today I intend to expose the underbelly of the beast so we can at least identify some of the puppet masters pulling your strings.  My hope is that you will then question these institutions and the role they have played in your lives.

If we wake up it may still be possible to save humanity from yet another round of self-destruction.  If we don't, then the prophecies of the Bible, the Holy Mother Mary, Nostradamus, Cayce, the Hopi Original Americans and others will come true and that may not be so pretty.

Before you decide that I am some Dooms Day prophet or conspiracy advocate let me make a couple of things clear.

First, I am no more of a conspiracy advocate than those who believe;

the Bible of Christianity,

the Hanged Stones or Koran of Islam,

the Talmud, Kabbalah, Midrash or Zohar of the Hebrews,

the Tao-Teh King of China,

the Kojiki of Japan,

the Palermo Stone, The Pyramid Texts, Inscription of Unus, Tales of the Magicians, Precepts of Ptah-Hotep, Coffin Texts, Budge's Book of the Dead (Ani), Prayers of Ikhn-aton, The Book of the Breaths of Life of ancient Egypt,

the Gathas,  Shah-Nameh,  Khayyam's Rubaiyat to the Yussuf and Zuleika of Jami of Persia,

and all the other so called religious and spiritual texts of the metaphysical world including the world of magic, Druids, witches and wizards.

One thing the long history of man has produced in this human life cycle is a wealth of colorful, fantastic, forbidding, and terrifying stories to explain our foundation and reason for being and if truth is found in all those sacred texts then truth can be found in the wonders of Greek mythology, the adventures of King Arthur and Merlin, and fairy tales of all lands.

My point is this, only a fool would claim to know the true truth of God but we are all free to speculate and endorse whichever of these truth we so choose, provided we respect the right of others to select their own truths.

Second, we must be open to a higher truth than mankind has so far discovered and this point extends to definitions, laws and all the other techniques mankind has used to force conformity of all people to some arbitrary standard.  I did not say to reject what is but just to be open to what isn't known.

The Secret Domicile of the Fallen Angels

If I were God and watched as a bunch of Angels were seduced by the temptations of the human existence which they could never be part of, the last place I would ever exile them to would be the scene of the crime, Earth.  But God did exile them to Earth according to the Bible so there must have been some higher purpose in the exile than mere punishment.

Perhaps they were not punished at all but the whole Fallen Angel story was intended to mask the fact they were sent here to play roles not associated with the "Goodness of God" or the purpose of angels.

Maybe the Fallen Angels were sent here to make sure we are prepared to get back into Heaven.  More like Drill Sergeants than bad guys.  Think of them as the intelligence agents for God, the celestial oxymoron.

Yet they can also be bad, at least in terms of eternal salvation.  In many cases they are the agents of evil, the soul snatchers or even the soul less so committed to their path there is no element of justice, grace or empathy in their countenance.

You will find them penetrating every single one of the institutions or organizations I outlined above and the most astonishing thing of all is they actually believe they are doing good though they could care less how many people are hurt in the process.

Within the bowels of every institution are these fallen angels who live to destroy the spirit and sabotage the soul of every one they encounter through their callous actions that are intended to break - not heal, to control - not help, and to tear down - not build.

Our major financial institutions are riddled with such fallen angels dedicated to using any means necessary, legal or otherwise, to make certain the profits from the engine of our capitalist system serves a select few at the expense of the vast majority.

They control all stock markets, all high speed computer manipulation of the markets and they create wave after wave of illegal stock and investment packages to bilk the consumer with the promise of quick profits.

These parasites make sure you, the public, will never have access to new stock issues and they know what your pension fund is doing before it has been done, then use computer buying to undercut your dwindling assets while profiting from your losses.  Often they are the same ones managing your money while milking the markets for every cent of profit.

Long ago they discarded ethics as a viable concept and instead rated it a nuisance.  They buy and sell politicians to protect their tax breaks and hoodwink the federal regulatory agencies from the SEC to FDA to the U.S. Attorney's Office into pitiful fines for gross wrongdoing.

So complete is their control that the thousands of banking and home mortgage executives involved in bringing about the greatest economic crash of our nation since the great depression virtually all escaped jail, even when their firms paid fines which amounted to a small fraction of the damage they did.

As if that was not enough they had the Treasury Department, SEC, IRS and many other federal agencies agreeing to allow them to pay fines without admitting guilt, thus allowing them to write off the expenses for the legal fees and fines against the corporation from their tax liabilities, often amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars and even billions on occasion.

And then they had the audacity to pay themselves tens of millions of dollars in bonuses for minimizing the damage to the corporations for the crimes they committed, paid fines for, but didn't admit to doing thanks to government loopholes that still remain in place.

Sound confusing?  Try this simplification.  If you stole $100 from the collection box at church and got caught after you spent the money here is what would happen to you.  You would agree to pay back about .01 cent for every dollar you stole.  You would not agree you were guilty.  The few cents you paid in fines plus your legal fees would be deducted from your taxes next year.  And you would give yourself a bonus, maybe $20 of the $100 you stole for getting away with the crime.

Anyone who thinks crime doesn't pay, at least white collar crime in the ivory towers of our revered and hallowed business suites and board rooms around the nation, is on the take, or insane.  But you don't have to be.

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Health Care – Hope and Change or Crash and Burn? Can we fix what has been broken or time to start anew?

Hey Congress how about real health care reform for a change?

Did you ever stop to think, “maybe we got it all wrong?”

Healthcare in America, call it Medicare, Obamacare, Trump Care, Congress Care, Illegal Immigrant Care, or Welfare Care, whatever you prefer.  It might be the greatest hypocrisy in modern politics, and certainly the greatest insult to the revered Hippocratic Oath, the sorry state of our health, and health care system.

It is not just broken, it is disappearing before our very eyes into the mists of political gobble-de-gook.  Sinking into quicksand.  It is time to pull the plug.  Somewhere in our storied history once upon a time not all that long ago someone determined our healthcare system had enormous profit potential.

Now health care in America really sucks.  That is what the system gave us when the money mongers took control and profits became the new standard.  We have the most expensive healthcare in the world, yet it ranks mediocre in performance at best.  Of course, mediocre is the result achieved by accepting that what we have got is good enough.

Truth is, it is not good enough!

Being “good enough” was never a part of the American Dream for our nation, or the peoples in that nation.  People came to America to help make the world a much nicer place for everyone.  They came here for freedom, truth, protection, diversity, religious tolerance, and economic opportunity, among other reasons.  It was quite a noble statement of the mission of this new nation in the New World back in 1776.

We were up to the challenge.  The American spirit was a powerful force for freedom and even exceptionalism.  It carried us through the Revolution where we earned our sovereignty down the barrel of a gun.

It powered us again in the Civil War and helped us heal the wounds of a bitterly House divided.  In the Great War (World War I) and the War to End All Wars (World War II) it carried us toward our destiny of becoming the most dominant force in the world.

We did too.

Then, we hit a plateau.  With the eventual fall of the Soviet Union (December 25, 1991) we were number one in just about everything.  For the first time in our history, we had no competition for leadership of the world.  It has now been about twenty-seven years since we came to dominate the world as the only viable super-power.

Americans seem to get a little soft when they do not have formidable competition.  Suddenly we started to believe all those good things people said about us, and realized it was okay to win.  It was only natural for winners to want to keep on winning, we might just be as great as others say.

Well, that leads to a false sense of self-confidence, we get lax in our diligence, and lethargic in our response when bad things happen around us.  Yet, if everything was so good in our lives, why did the Cold War happen.  Then came Korea and Vietnam wars, with over 58,000 killed in that jungle skirmish.  The questions go on, and on, and on.

It was also a time of miraculous medical breakthroughs in treatment and in prescription drugs, in replacing limbs and organs, rebuilding hearts, and rewiring brains.  The transformation of the medical industry had begun.  From now on the motto of Wall Street would be “Balance sheets and profit Margins, not public health and public safety.

The financial vultures dug up every avenue of profit possible in the medical universe, and put them all in play.  What a vast and diverse range of players entered the game.  Profits could be squeezed out of doctors and hospital services, if the paradigm changed.  Give them rapidly changing new services for all kinds of new forms of diseases, and treatments.

Suddenly health insurance companies exploded on the scene to help you pay the cost of those new services when you get sick.  Then reinsurance companies were needed to prop up the insurance companies.  Public and private health insurance programs exploded. So, did the multitude of integrated steps to achieve superior quality.

Sophisticated testing laboratories with the most advanced technology and toys were needed to keep up with the speed of the changes.  Then there were clinics, emergency rooms, rehab center, and trauma unit needed to support the new treatment methods.

The tentacles of the medical community reach far and wide, but the body and brain for all those tentacles resides on Wall Street, where gold rules.  Here the Captains of Commerce toast the minions of the powerful puppet masters of the world, those few remaining bloodlines who control all.

Which is more important, Capitalism or Democracy?

Odd that a force as powerful as Capitalism and dominant in world affairs is not mentioned in our own founding documents, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution.  So, what does that have to do with medical services today?  Today we have achieved the most expensive health care in the world as a result of Capitalism conquering the medical world.  Still our quality of service sucks.

To add insult to injury, health care in America does not even include eye care or tooth care.  What is that all about?  The two medical problems that almost everyone experiences and they do not even count as medical procedures?  Congress let them get away with that and we are left paying the bills.

  

Some leadership in our nations’ capitol.

What we have today, whether under Obama or Trump, are the most expensive services possible to assure you have the latest and greatest diagnostic and treatment equipment in existence.  There are new diseases discovered nearly every week while magically, prescription drug medicine for the new diseases is available at nearly the same time.

Bio-engineering has brought you artificial limbs, replacement parts for organs, even replacement organs.  Of course, that means more antibiotics, to keep you well, and prescription drugs, to keep you going.  All the new services, diseases, drugs, and diagnostics along with the clinics, rehab centers, hospitals, hospices, assisted living, retirement living centers, offices, and pharmacies made medicine and the prolonged treatment of patients the fastest growing profit centers in capitalism.

All of these profit centers are necessary for the profiteers to get their tentacles beyond your checking account, and beyond your health insurance, to your retirement funds and remaining assets such as property, in other words, they are now into all parts of your nest egg.  Often the result is bleeding your assets dry.

Did I mention the health care lobbyists throwing big bucks at the doctors and politicians desperate to get a few bucks for their campaigns?  All of these factors combined to feed the new and massive profit centers of medicine and Wall Street fell in lock step to protect this new and ever-expanding profit center extravaganza.

We remain sicker than ever, more out-of-shape if not downright obese, more dependent on prescription drugs, and more willing to accept chronic pain as long as big pharma could provide the prescription pain relief.  Now depression and mild altering prescriptions have opened the floodgates to prescription drug addiction (opioids) becoming the leading cause of heroin addiction.

Our healthcare system is designed to manage our health maintenance, not cure our health issues.  An entire industry has developed to provide permanent dietary supplements to keep us addicted to even the more harmless revenue streams as well.  We are led to believe that our immune system will never work without the endless bottles of dietary supplements.

It does not matter if we choose to support the Obama or Trump medical solution, or the Democrat or Republican solution, the politicians and the people are slaves to a system that cannot and will not work.

We deserve a system that makes us healthy and keeps us healthy, not makes it more comfortable to stay sick.  Doctors should be given an incentive to heal patients, not send them on an endless round of referrals throughout the failed health care system.

Western Medicine in America is a convoluted maze of conflicts of interest, ethical violations, black market subsidies, off the books prescription sales, over-prescribing and under-performing throughout the world’s most expensive health program.

At the same time the pharmaceutical industry, which first cooped Obama and now seems to have the entire Congress at their beck and call, also used every trick in the book to discredit and stop the use of folk medicine, Chinese traditional medicine, Druid herbology, Greek and Egyptian treatments for diseases that were successfully used for thousands of years before western medicine ever existed.  

Most of those incredibly successful techniques are as valid today as when they were popular but they are not profitable today.

Finally, there is incredible progress made by Tesla and Raymond Rife, to mention just two people in the use of frequency machines to analyze the human boy, isolate diseases, and use the proper frequency to destroy them.  They were forced out of the market between 80 and 100 years ago when there were clinics coast-to-coast curing people.

Today the work by Tesla and Rife and others is finally being brought back, but far from the level it achieved more than half a century ago.  It is the key to proper nutrition, becoming health consciousness, and using medicine to rebuild the immune systems and break the dependence on our western medical system.  The rest of what we need is in the mind.

Diet does not work without food, fasting, and prayer or meditation.  Medical care does not work without proper diet, fitness, and health consciousness.  None of it works without freeing your mind of addiction, freeing your body of unhealthy junk, treating your body as a temple, and kicking yourself in the ass for allowing something as important as your personal health and happiness to be dictated by others.

We do not need a broken system patched up yet again, we need a viable alternative to what does not work.  That alternative is to embrace all the wonderful gifts God gave us in terms of herbs, food, awareness, and prayer, and do what makes sense for us, not Wall Street.

Healthy people are the only way to drive down health care costs and nothing being considered by our esteemed Congress, no matter what the blabber-mouths say, promise or claim, makes sense.  Send a little love to Washington along with a little light and maybe the dark mist that currently shrouds our nation’s capital and stunts their creative actions might just begin to be lifted.

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