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There are scores of broadcast news bureau chiefs and newspaper editors whom I would simply adore seeing flung from their office windows - the condition being that the fall would prove fatal.

Do you suppose this impacts my credibility as a "Christian gentleman"?

For the uninitiated: The citation of the Ministry of Truth refers to the bureau that controlled all media in George Orwell's political novel 1984 -- truth being anything but what came out of that establishment.

Although the activist (mainstream) press distorts pretty much everything, the reason I find their being the single most damaging force upon race relations in America so egregious is because it affects people and their humanity in a way few issues do. I also realize that the aforementioned hurling of newsmen (and women) to their deaths would only be of symbolic significance; like Mafiosi and drug lords, there are always underlings waiting in the wings to man the helm anew and continue the evil work.

Mexican-Americans - even many who arrived here illegally -- are, by and large, as patriotic and industrious as the rest of us. How do I know this? Because I know tons of them. Those we see living their lives, working and trucking their kids around town aren't the ones we've seen marching in the streets, however.

In relative terms, there are but a handful who approve of amnesty for illegal immigrants and open borders or Mexican immigrants who remain nationalistic (with respect to Mexico) after emigrating here. Those whom we have seen protesting over the last weeks are generally activists, misguided students and miscreants spurred on by Marxist, racist and international socialist interests.

You wouldn't think so though, if you watch the news coverage on your brainsucker box every day, given the volume of pro-illegal immigration coverage available versus anti-illegal immigration coverage.

When I was growing up in New York during the Civil Rights Movement, I experienced some people who were bigoted and some who just couldn't get along. Blacks marched in the South for good reason. I lived in a lot of different neighborhoods in the New York area; for the most part, most of the people there -- as in most places I've lived since - did get along. That is because (I believe) most Americans are decent and reasonably open-minded.

The media's reporting of things -- as many have noticed -- changed over the years, from the imparting of information to propagandization. Of course some of it has to do with money; if my wallet got fatter every time I was the bearer of bad news, I'd be inclined to spin things to the negative side when speaking to people. Heck, I might just make some stuff up every now and then. But the infiltration of outright socialists and craven internationalist intellectuals into that industry cannot be credibly denied.

The marches led by Dr. King were worthy of worldwide news coverage, but the fact that someone like Al Sharpton rose to prominence in America via leading gratuitous, self-aggrandizing and useless marches in New York City, framing police and attacking Italian-Americans is testimony to how the media changed from 1960 to 2000. What did it get Sharpton, who continues his "racist America" rhetoric and self-serving mission? Why, fame and fortune, of course.

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