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You Should Only Use 100%
American-Made Mass Media
The current economic stimulus bill that is making its way through Congress includes a controversial provision which stipulates that most projects funded by the bill must only use American-made equipment and materials.
I think this is good.
We've been using cheap foreign labor and products for too many years sacrificing the welfare and wellbeing of our own people in an effort to fatten up corporate America's bottom-line.
Everyone should buy and use American-made products and services whenever possible. Period.
That includes your mass-communications mediums like newspapers, TV and radio.
I can assure you that the newspaper that owns the website which publishes this blog is 100% American-made.
Our ink comes from Texas.
Our paper comes from various southern states.
And as far as our editorial staff, I don't know everyone's cultural upbringing, but they sure look American. Even that Rudi fellow who often writes about government news looks American, although, I often see him wearing one of those fancy wide-brimmed hats that you might see some European city slicker wear. Since it's not a baseball cap or a Stetson, it does make me a little suspicious of him.
So, with the possible exception of Rudi, the Southeast Missourian newspaper is about as darn close to being 100% American-made as a mass-medium can get.
I don't know if the same can be said about those OTHER media, the radio and TV broadcasters.
I bet they can't prove where they get those broadcast frequencies they use. I can produce invoices and bills of lading that verify our paper and ink are American-made. Can they document that their broadcast frequencies were manufactured here in the good old US of A?
Of course not, because they can't.
It's a little-known fact that due to cheap labor and the highly toxic nature of the manufacturing process required to create broadcast frequencies -- it involves lead, asbestos and ramen noodles -- that China makes most of the world's airwaves supply in its Sichuan province.
They then ship the frequencies in large freighters to the US where they are distributed by rail and tanker truck to the thousands of radio and TV stations located around the country.
But could those broadcasters buy their frequencies locally? Of course, they could.
We have lead. We have asbestos. We even have ramen noodles. But the broadcasters don't want to pay the premium required to safely manufacture those airwaves here in the US. They would rather cave in to their corporate bottom lines and buy cheaply-made foreign broadcast frequencies.
And what do you really know about the on-air talent at the radio and TV stations? Everyone knows that they all use stage names or nom-de-plumes. What are they hiding? Do you think that "Mary Ann Maloney" is that KFVS anchors' real name?
I bet not. It just sounds too wholesome. Too calculating. Designed to make viewers long for repeats of Gilligan's Island and hotties with pig-tails. I wouldn't be surprised if her real name is something-or-other Bin Laden.
And where do you think most of the content that these TV stations air actually comes from? California. Some people think they're part of the US, but are they really? Does The Golden State really share the views and values of we people of the Heartland? I think not!
And let's not talk about that PBS TV network. Those guys blatantly get most of their content from England. You can easily tell which shows. They're the programs where the actors have those funny accents.
And, they wear a lot of wide-brimmed hats.
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