Interesting stuff. There is obviously a market for truth. Boston bomber cites US wars as motivation

Interesting stuff from yesterday.
One of the mainstream news outlets publishes a fragment of truth and the comments board goes ballistic with  ten to one hundred times the volume of comments to what they normally get.

The simple truth is that the best way of stopping terrorist attacks on America, is for America to stop committing terrorist attacks on other countries. We have heard it from the horse's mouth.

Bombing suspect cites US Wars as motivation, officials say
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/boston-bombing-suspect-cites-us-wars-as-motivation-officials-say/2013/04/23/324b9cea-ac29-11e2-b6fd-ba6f5f26d70e_story.html

N.B. The American presence in Iraq is NOT over and there are no plans to ever leave.
America still has 7,000 mercenaries in Iraq at an annual cost of $105bn. Source Pentagon budget.

Glen Greenwald does a good job of explaining the Boston bomber's motivations (and other recent attempted terrorist attacks).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/24/boston-terrorism-motives-us-violence

See the number of comments compared to what Washington Post articles normally get.

With falling TV ratings, the major news networks might like to consider that.
There is obviously a market for the truth instead of the endless drivel, propaganda, lies and sycophancy that they currently endlessly churn out.

I wanted to catch up with the latest news on the Boston bombing last week so I turned on CNN.
But Wolf Blitzer made me feel sick to the pit of my stomach with his propaganda, scaremongering and sycophancy (in between some belly laughs from some of the ridiculous and ludicrous things he was saying) so I had to switch off after a few minutes and go find the news someplace else.
Wolf Blitzer is a total idiot - when is CNN going to get rid of him and get someone decent?

If one of the 5 major news networks started reporting some honest non-partisan truth I am pretty sure their ratings would go up dramatically.
They could start with the FBI incompetency of keeping tabs on the elder brother for 3 to 5 years before dropping him last year.
They could also start with calling for Janet Napolitano's head on  the block for squandering countless billions every year and being incompetent.
Then they could go for Eric Holder for not prosecuting the senior bankers for their multiple crimes.

If just one of the major news networks started making honest appraisals of the government their ratings would go up. It would be such a breath of fresh air compared to what Americans have been used to.
And lets face it, the largest demographic group are independents with 40% of the electorate. They are already very disaffected with the 2 main joker parties.
Put that together with the sizeable number of already disaffected Democrat voters (which is only going to grow) and you have a major audience demographic to steal from the other networks.

You could also include the circa 10% approval ratings for Congress. Honest non biased independent assessments of them would go down a storm - John Stewart does very well out of it.
Let's face it - honest criticism of them could fill countless hours of entertaining air time - instead of the current drivel of being critical of one party and sycophantic to the other - they are both terrible and your audience has already come to that conclusion.

Throw in the fact that the audience for TV news (and newspapers) is not getting any younger and the networks are going to have to do something to change or accept considerably reduced profits.
The young get access to other news sources apart from the mainstream media - it's called the internet and thus they are not so easily conned (or willing to listen to boring old farts spouting propaganda and lies).

Working on indoctrinating more Nazi brown shirts, aka Islamophobia (Fox News), or trying to pretend that Obama is somehow working for the people and not for the big banks, the arms companies and Monsanto has reached saturation point and is now declining. As witnessed by the falling TV ratings and newspapers sales generally.

The first mover towards honest reporting could make a fortune.
The major networks and newspapers should ponder on that for a while.
They would also be doing the world a favor, by stopping the march towards SE Asia, Chinese centered, global hegemony.
The American network that did this would find a sizeable audience and multiple profit centers elsewhere in the world.
There would at least be syndication rights to sell.
The rest of the world is p*ssed off at their governments (and America) too.

You would also get the pick of the staff you wanted to employ.
Plenty of people would prefer to work at an organisation that was performing a public service (and not being a public disservice by constantly propagandising and lying through their teeth).
Put that together with being highly profitable with lots of prospects and you will have the best people queueing up to work for you.
Ponder on that too.

If one of the major networks does not want to do it, perhaps some other motivated entrepreneur will come along and do it instead and make their fortune at your expense.
There is certainly a gap in the market and the gap in the market is huge if the above is anything to go by.