When the Media is no longer the Press.

What Hap­pens when the Media begin to behave like some­one that does not have any inten­tion of obey­ing the laws of the land?

This is what is hap­pen­ing with the Media. 

Indeed at some point one might begin to ques­tion the motives of any indi­vid­ual that dis­torts the truth with a lie that often has seri­ous con­se­quences, riots, prop­er­ty dam­age and even death.

Bal­ti­more Riots.

report­ed 202 arrests, 144 vehi­cle fires — includ­ing mul­ti­ple police vehi­cles — and 15 build­ing fires. Fif­teen offi­cers were injured in the vio­lence that spilled into Mon­day night. Mary­land Gov. Lar­ry Hogan declared a state of emer­gency and acti­vat­ed the Mary­land Nation­al Guard Mon­day night as Rawl­ings-Blake declared a week­long city­wide cur­few start­ing Tues­day, span­ning 10 p.m. to 5 a.m.

Around the coun­try, while Vice News live-streamed cov­er­age from the ground through­out the night, large news out­lets embraced the cov­er­age in vary­ing degrees. Both large and small local out­lets relied on wire cov­er­age from the Asso­ci­at­ed Press and the New York Times, or report­ing from Gan­nett and Tri­bune Com­pa­ny papers on the front lines.

29 Mil­lion dol­lars in dam­ages but was that just an esti­mate and what was the true cost to Amer­i­ca.

No doubt that it would not have been a news sto­ry at all if the police had man­aged to pro­tect the cus­tody of the sub­ject that was arrest­ed how­ev­er the media took the advan­tage of the sit­u­a­tion to make mon­ey…

Basi­cal­ly the Media yelled Fire in a crowd­ed the­ater and then sold fire extin­guish­ers as peo­ple tried to escape the the­ater.   They made mil­lions in sales of adver­tis­ing, papers, mag­a­zines, online adver­tis­ing at web­sites, they even made com­mis­sions on the sales of prod­ucts fea­tured on their web­sites.

The real prob­lem here is that the media is not the press.

The press is pro­tect­ed by the con­sti­tu­tion but does that extend to the Media?

notwith­stand­ing the fact that free­dom of speech does not actu­al­ly extend to yelling fire in a crowd­ed the­ater is the media the same thing as the press or is it more like a mon­ey mak­ing enter­tain­ment busi­ness that has lit­tle regard for the truth or the safe­ty of the peo­ple that were in so many cities when riots took place.

At some point you just have to begin to think IF this were a per­son, not a cor­po­ra­tion but a per­son would that per­son be sub­ject to legal action and or even crim­i­nal charges?

The answer to that has to be YES…

The most seri­ous thing we face here is that these cor­po­ra­tions are above the law just like many mem­bers of con­gress and politician’s  who rou­tine­ly break the law often with no con­se­quences while reg­u­lar peo­ple the peo­ple who vote in this nation would be sub­ject to being sep­a­rat­ed from their fam­i­lies pun­ished twice and three times by the law and the state and some­times also the gov­ern­ment.

here is an exam­ple, a man is strug­gling to pay his bills because there is not much work out there and some­times he gets a few days work and some­times he does not, then he has to choose between eat­ing and pay­ing insur­ance, no excuse of course, but now with com­put­ers the state can fine him and force him to pay a rein­state­ment fee for the priv­i­lege of hav­ing to pay for a license tag and tax on the val­ue of the vehi­cle that the man owns, the rein­state­ment fee in many states can range from $185.00 to $450.00

So the only way the man has to earn enough mon­ey to pay to get his priv­i­lege to dri­ve in the state he lives in is to take a chance and dri­ve to work any­way.

By the way this is in part based on a true sto­ry.

The man gets a tick­et for a head­lamp that is not lit then they check his tag and find that it is expired.

They tow his truck or car off and he goes to jail or they let me go home if he is lucky.

Now he is back home but he has no way to get to work.

On top of that insult, he now has to go to court, where he will be fined, like­ly any­where from $1200.00 to $2400.00  he may also be placed on pro­ba­tion any­where from 1 to 5 years, he will have to pay a month­ly pro­ba­tion offi­cer fee, usu­al­ly 25 to 75 dol­lars per month and if he is able he can get his vehi­cle back after he pays the fine that he still owes, along with the tow bill and the impound fee as well as a dai­ly stor­age fee which can range between 10 to 50 dol­lars per day.

So he is pun­ished by fines and pro­ba­tion then because he is on pro­ba­tion he may have dif­fi­cul­ty get­ting a job in the future.  Which means this is a pun­ish­ment that is a last­ing pun­ish­ment that could go on for many years.

Addi­tion­al­ly he is like­ly to have a low cred­it score which trans­lates into pay­ing more for ser­vices than oth­er peo­ple pay.

That is the aver­age per­son.

The wealthy and the polit­i­cal­ly con­nect­ed peo­ple nev­er get the first tick­et because they are not treat­ed the same as oth­ers who also may make a mis­take by not pay­ing a bill on time.

Hard to imag­ine how dif­fi­cult it might become to just exist while many peo­ple and now the Media as well face no con­se­quences for the actions that they take.

That is just not accept­able.

Why do we put up with this bad behav­ior from giant rich cor­po­ra­tions.