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Latest Video rant (text below)

The corporate media, and that includes NPR and PBS with their hundreds of corporate sponsors, including Exxon and the Koch Brothers, shape the narrative of what is and isn't considered news you need to know every day. And much of what they do report is either heavily slanted, sensationalized crap or complete BS.

They ignore important stories like the climate crisis, which this summer is fueling killer heat waves across the Northern hemisphere and hundreds of wildfires from Sweden to Greece to the western United States. NPR only covered the heat waves today because a massive fire in Yosemite National Park forced the closure of all public access to Yosemite Valley. That's literally what it takes to get them to cover catastrophic climate change - a disruption to Americans who booked vacations this summer to go to Yosemite!

Instead of focusing on Israeli's apartheid, the genocide in Yemen, the ongoing Flint water crisis, people who can't afford their medical bills despite insurance having to rely on Gofundme, etc., etc., etc., they continue to force feed us stories about #Russiagate. Hell, they should be going after Trump for his numerous violation of the emoluments clause in the Constitution, whereby his businesses have benefited from government contracts, but they barely touch that story? Why? We know government corruption is the one issue that crosses bi-partisan boundaries with 80% of Americans considering it a major issue that they want fixed.

Well, if they focus too much on Trump's corruption, they would also have to look at the corruption of the vast majority of our politicians in both major parties. So, instead they fill the airwaves with trivial stories about Trump's former lawyer secretly taping him, or Trump's tweets, instead of what most Americans care about: Better paying jobs, better education, less war, reducing police violence, ending mass incarceration, and end to corporate welfare, getting big money out of politics, expanding the social safety net instead of shrinking it and providing a more just society with more opportunities for all people regardless of class or race or ethnicity.

So that's my rant for today. Below, a few links for your edification:

'We have to start getting used to it': Record-breaking temperatures heating up the globe
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/we-have-to-start-getting-used-to-it...

NPR Annual Report 2017 (showing corporate sponsors): https://www.npr.org/about/annualreports/2017_Annual_Report.pdf

D.C., Maryland can proceed with lawsuit alleging Trump violated emoluments clauses
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/dc-maryland-may-proceed-with-law...

USA | Activists Call On-going Saudi-led Coalition War on Yemen a Genocide https://wibailoutpeople.org/2018/07/1...

Netanyahu will be known as the first prime minister of Israeli apartheid
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/23/netanyahu-israeli-...

Corruption Of Government Officials Ranked Americans' Top Fear Of 2017
https://www.forbes.com/sites/niallmccarthy/2017/10/19/corruption-of-gove...

Russiagate: Two-Headed Monster of Propaganda and Censorship
https://projectcensored.org/russiagate-two-headed-monster-propaganda-cen...