America's Words

 

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“THE NEWS IS THE ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE” SO SAYS OUR PRESIDENT...

I remember in the 1950's when my brother went to Boy Scout Camp, I had to deliver his paper route. Almost every home had a paper delivered. It was a big job riding a bike and throwing with accuracy the paper to land on the door step. On my morning walks in 2025, there is only one other home in my neighborhood, which has a paper home delivered. In the 50's the News was our local paper, The Whittier Daily News, and in the evening's Network news with Edward R. Murrow at CBS. We trusted both news sources. There was no 24 hour cable, no cell phone influence-rs, no AI making up fake stories, and most of all, what we read, heard, and saw the news was an independent critically presented trusted source for our daily lives. At our Family dinner time, we as a family had occasion to talk about together what was news of the Day.

Who do you Trust Now? Really trust to get the Whole Story. To find the Whole Story. The Networks have a daily Evening News which has been downsized to 15 minuets of headlines. Even so, the headlines are only what is deemed profitable to capture a Click. Social Media for many folks has replaced traditional news sources. This kind of news is most often experienced on a Cell Phone in an abbreviated form. The TV version of news for many is Fox News, which has paid millions of dollars for having people lie on their platform. Many of my neighbors get their news on Instagram. I remember who sat in back of Trump at his inauguration. The Media Giants, Billionaires all...their social platforms are designed by algorithms, to engender clicks of like minded people and spread the stories for clicks...Real news, trusted research* is NOT their cause, their cause is making more money and power for themselves...and, not report any negative information about Trump or his policies.

Words of our Senate in Real Time

To counter, I suggest to them that C-Span, 1,2,3, is a great way to watch in real time the meanderings, double speak, and what is really happening in our Congress. PBS on TV and NPR radio give in real time a source of news in depth. Most of the time, I trust my own eyes and ears on C-span, and trust what I am hearing on PBS, most of the Time.

Cell Phones are the distribution mechanism of AI generated fake media. Stories, Art, News, Politics, and attacks on peoples privacy and personal lives writ large. Coupled with AI Chat-GP these communications can be spread exponentially in seconds. When the President writes his tweets on Truth Social, it is transported to his millions of followers in seconds. Believing all that you see on social media accounts is like believing a six year old child with a pile of rocks in front of him saying he didn't break that darn window he is standing in front of with a rock seen within.

He lies about so many stories, with elements of truth sometimes, that followers are in thrall with his attention to them. Let's contemplate the twitter platform he has created.

Truth Social. Sounds innocent and real, it's first word Truth is what he want's his followers to believe is factual Truth. When someone is trying to sell you a used car, and he loudly proclaims that the car is without any defects, do you believe him or, do you take it in for a check up from your trusted mechanic? When someone says the big lie over and over again somehow it becomes so familiar, it seems true.

Social is the second word on his twitter site. Social is a word we all are a part of, it has become a thing, in our daily lives. Humans are mostly social beings. We love to have friends to interact with daily, and whether in person or on our phones, we are Connected. By it's self, the word is innocent. It does not have a negative theme. It implies friendship, community, and happiness to connect, to be a part of a needed experience. We are hooked. We all have this need to be connected with those we trust and love.

Turning to a source for information and truth on this platform Truth Social can only be factual right? A genius lure to draw in the trusting masses looking for solutions for moral and economic problems. 

Clark Stanley

The snake oil salesman is very charismatic. He is an entertainer. He speaks with vigorous force and strategic movement, energizing his audience. He is exciting, he is more interesting than common sense. He becomes a trusted Friend. He tells all of the People that their problems will all be solved by him alone. Didn't we hear that years ago when he first began his plan to become king? 

What on God's Green Earth would make you believe that this  Billionaire cares about You? Prices are NOT a concern for him. 

I Will bring prices down...his words, we all heard him, some believed him... too many believed.

* Snopes