We got past the last election cycle with wins across the board. The system is not yet cured, but it is working in that direction.

The evil that is incarnate in the neocon agenda is being seen for what it is.

But we're still in danger - perhaps even more grave danger than ever - of our very democracy cumbling right before our eyes.

I have long contended that our very worst enemy is our news media. Rupert Murdoch wrote the book on crap media. The Republicans and the admirals of the Large Corporations (not the corporations themselves) wrote the game plan to take Murdoch's crap media and make it their greatest tool for control of the masses.

We find our candidates being anointed by the news media at a point in time when the campaigns should not have even been started.

We find criminal acts that are obvious to a moron (or a moran, as the case may be) covered up by a complicit and sympathetic media. The march of whistling reporters in front of the graveyard has turned into a steady and endless trudge.

We find facts obscured to suit the needs of the Powers that Be. When was the last flag draped coffin on *your* teevee screen or on *your* front page?

The things we rail about regularly would be MUCH more easily solvable - if not self solving - if only they were reported to the masses honestly and fairly.

Not in the laughably faux 'fair and balanced'/show both sides format of 'debate news' but as basic facts. Funny thing about facts ........ they have only one side to **their** story. Opinion has its place, but not in the reportage of facts.

It is my opinion that our citizens have shown over and over throughout our history that, when faced with the facts, they tend to do the right thing.

But when facts are manipulated to suit an agenda, we no longer have facts. Instead, we have mass delusion.

How do you see this? Do you agree that the media is **the** biggest, most serious, most overarching issue we've perhaps ever faced?