:bism: (In the Name of God, the Most Beneficent, the Most Merciful)
Hope you're doing well God-willing. :statisfie
As to your remarks, it is actually more than that. It is not just that events like that are forgotten. It is that the mainstream media is lame as all-get-out. For example, one of the reasons President Donald Trump won the election is because he seemed to the many poor and forgotten middle class Americans a better choice than former Secretary Hillary Clinton. Yet the corporate media, that is major news channels here, not covering stories on the West Virginia and Ohio teacher strikes or the current Disney strike. The question that should be begged is why the heck is this not given coverage in major media channels, and of course the answer lays in the big media protecting corporate interests. It is gross, but that's the reality. It is also why stories like this airstrike is not given airtime by major media outlets, because it would lead to questioning of military incompetence or negligence or what-have-you and current decisions of America doing war interventions in 8 different countries under President Trump currently. Because money talks, and moneyed people have allied interests in keeping the war machine going because selling arms to the military is big business and making arms is even bigger business. It is why any reasonable discussions on restrictions on gun control is even immediately shut down. Because frankly, American politics is extremely corrupt.
Regular Americans don't care or even want to be in different countries, protecting interests of the corporations dealing in arms and laying down their lives for corrupt politicians - so, they're instead sold on the lies of how everybody in the world is evil and hates America for no conceivable reason. That's the narrative. It sucks. But unfortunately, I don't see that changing. American media will cover instead porn star Stormy Daniels' decades-old affair with President Trump, because then they don't have to cover the real issues which haunt Americans: poverty, continuing disappearance of middle class, evaporation of American dream of affording a house, corporations not paying living wages to their workers, unions being pushed out or being unable to be sustained, being at war in 8 different countries which didn't attack the homeland, and corruption from top-down in politics because corporations have lobbyists that buy politicians' votes and favors legally.
So, my personal hope is that Bernie Sanders runs against President Donald Trump in 2020 and wins, so that we begin addressing the issues that really matter to regular Joe as an American and plague Americans generally. And I'm actually tired of non-news like former Secretary Hillary Clinton trying to blame her loss on sexism being covered as well; the truth is while she was a better choice than President Donald Trump in the 2016 election, she was actually too close to Wall Street and had proven herself a corporate shill in many instances. So, her being better than President Trump in the 2016 election is actually a sad commentary on American politics generally. Americans are tired of the same-old, same-old. And it is just too bad that President Trump has, since taking his seat in the Oval Office , taken to proving himself an incompetent buffoon that is too hopelessly narcissistic and ill-informed and corrupt to address the issues he said he would to give the have-nots what they'd wanted out of him. President Trump constantly attacking the corporate media as "fake news" is incorrect in the sense that those media channels are not deliberately giving erroneous information out to the public, but they're "fake" in the sense that they deliberately divert American public's eyes from the real issues that continue to haunt America. And of course, President Trump is right (just as a broken clock is right twice a day) that they do have a liberal slant, but unfortunately it is a slant that is aligned with only corporate interests rather than public interest. It is also disgusting how the media acts as a propaganda arm of the government when it comes to wars that it wants to start; and right now, those countries are North Korea and Iran. I'm 100% disgusted by the mainstream media; I try to not take my news from them because they're so idiotic in their coverage priorities that they're at this point just diversionary agents of powers-that-be.
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czgibson
Greetings,
Yes, that's fair enough. Too many events like this get forgotten too quickly.
Peace