The broadcast media’s ignorance and unwillingness to cover the National Defense Authorization Act, a radical piece of legislation which outrageously redefines the US homeland as a “battlefield” and makes US citizens subject to military apprehension and detainment for life without access to a trial or attorney, is unacceptable.
Guys, this is far more important than Penn State’s Disgusting Creep of the Decade, or even Conrad Murray’s sentencing.
Call it what you will: a military junta, a secret invalidation of Americans’ civil rights, a Congress gone mad. Whatever it is, it needs to be covered by the press, and quickly.
Future historians — if such a profession will be allowed by law — will point to the Telecommunications Act of 1996 as a turning point in the American media’s reliability. This bill has been glossed over by many as it was passed during a time of prosperity. Perhaps it merely accelerated what was bound to happen.
(Source: wilwheaton)
