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Originally Posted by Bucco

This thread is fascinating to me.

I recall a few years ago all the flap about the wiretapping by the NSA and all the emotional calls about how we were losing our freedoms despite the facts of the issue.

Now this....something tells me this is pretty much become a political issue. One side is quick to condemn the NSA wiretapping and declare the end of all of our rights and one side says it is necessary.

Now, the side that defended the wiretaps is saying it is the end of our rights, and those that were appalled by the NSA wiretaps are saying it is necessary.

What a world we live in....if you read some of the posts they are so like, almost duplicates of what was said in the political forum to make political points.

I dont know what is right or wrong since I do not have all the information, but I said when folks were complaining how they were losing all their rights with the wiretapping (continued by the current IN's despite the anger) that the media is twisting all of us into a ball and have us chasing our tails. It now seems that they, the media, control what is reported and how and we all react to it with no private investigation.

There were and will be over reaches with the wiretapping and there will be overreach with the TSA.

Now that I have angered both sides........

I've noticed the same thing. The video with the media personalities' kid screaming is a good example. Did he stage it for ratings? It showed the child only being touched on her lower legs and upper arms, not being molested. The mom was doing nothing at all to try to calm her child down. That's not how mom's usually act when they are not being filmed for what is ironically called "reality TV".

Like Bucco, I don't have all the information but have noticed a "fast food" junk diet of media sensationalism and unsubstantiated personal accounts but little dispassionate actual "journalism," or what used to be considered journalism.