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Finally, the five worst in media, this century

© Deborah Lagarde

For publication Friday, December 31, 1999 by Deborah Lagarde Comments? E-mail: "mailto:dlagarde@suite101.com"

Yeah, yeah, the new century doesn't start until 2001. I know it, and I snip every time some media organ starts prattling on about the new century--new millennium!--beginning in a few days (the next day, at the time this thing is published), but...

I listed my humble top ten last two weeks. Now in all fairness I have to list my bottom five (five, not ten, so that when the "new millennium" starts Saturday and the world's computers have all crashed on Monday ( :-) ) (doesn't that kinda look like Homer Simpson??), I will be finished with all this nonsense and then I can go back to what I had originally planned: how the media has sold y2k solely to make a buck.

So, without further ado:

5. the fifth worst media outfit: The Jeff Davis County Mountain Dispatch, Fort Davis, Texas. So far as I know this so-called newspaper doesn't have a website. It is, by the way, my local town newspaper. You know, small town stuff--only this rag doesn't even report the most crucial issue to hit this part of west Texas ever: A gigantic land fraud lawsuit that has been going on since 1989. Ten years! And this "journal" hasn't reported a word about it, though one side of the suit keeps suing landowners--fraudulently, I might add, because the sue-ers are illegal. Why is his non-reporting of this issue so bad? Because the owner of the paper is backed finacially by the suing (illegal) side! A most (if not the most) crass example of small town press corruption I've ever seen.

4. the fourth worst: The New York Times, at "http://www.nytimes.com", is "all the news that's fit to print" only if you are politically correct ot a fault, love media spin--a cutsey term for media lies, and still are brainwashed enough to believe this organization is objective, fair, prestigious, whatever. Truly, truly I say to you: The New York Times is nothing but a bunch of socialism-loving a--kissers. To the credit of the Washington Post, they at least have some balance on important issues. Further, the NY Times has the distinction of being the only major city daily never linked to by WroldNetDaily or any other important alternative net news organ.

3. the third worst: The Disney company. I am not sure what their site is, considering you can access them about a hundred different ways (for instance: "http://go.disney.com" or some such). But they are purported to be a family type network, and have been for years. Well, some of the uninformed may think so, but I think Disney has given up all pretenses to being family long ago. What they ought to call it is the Wicca Network. Good God (and I mean that literally!), if you want to know about witches and whatnot, turn into just about any piece of trash Disney forks out nowadays. Okay, okay, half the trash--the other half is about how children are ten-times smarter than their parents (you call that family oriented??). What they ought to do is lay it out truthfully, saying they want to pursue the notion that the family is dead and so is God, and stop being so hypocritical purporting to be pro-family. A perfect example of the fact that self-righteous Christians aren't the world's only hypocrits.