IT'S A SENSATION!

  Have you noticed lately that the news is getting more and more excited about things that are less and less important? I long for the days of Walter Cronkite, Back when the news told you the happenings of the world with no spin, no agenda. Nowadays the major news organizations, such as NBC, CNN, and Fox news especially, all seem to want to scare you over to their side. Whether acknowledging rumors of the president being a secret muslim (by the way, what is so bad about being muslim?), spreading lies about "death panels" being in a proposed universal healthcare bill, some of the "news" today is downright absurd. I mean, death panels? Come on! When in the history of the United States has ANY official EVER said that a panel of people deciding whether or not you live or die was a good idea? I don't know either, and do you know why? Because an official like that would NEVER be elected and has NEVER been elected. But it isn't just on the fox news end of the spectrum. I also seem to remember an offensive and downright racist picture on the cover of the new yorker depicting President Obama and the first lady as terrorists "fist-bumping" in the oval office. I so tire of this melodrama, this sensationalism that the media uses to grub ratings and money. I know that the media will cling to the constitution to defend these stupidities as their free speech, and that they will continue to spout lies in order to further their own agendas. I can't, however, help but hope for a bipartisan future where the media is unbiased and politicians will work together to achieve common goals for the greater  good of America itself, even though this seems like a pipe dream.