Time to free our minds

Being a Free Mind, Simply means Ownership has not been given away...Many people today freely give their minds away, whether to media, or to the preacher in the pull pit, many of us have yet to learn the cardinal rule "seek truth and all else will be revealed" Too many times we allow ourselves to be spoon fed falsified truths by others instead of doing the necessary legwork to find out the facts and draw our own opinions. I like many Americans use to rely on Mainstream media to give me my daily dose of current and world affairs not realizing until recent "how accurate could a 60 second soundbite be? could the news become anymore sensationalized? "

Nowadays, you have journalist who let their bias come through their reporting, so I find myself not watching certain news channels or journalist because I already expect negative banter. When did it become OK for our news to come from pundits more so than honest, journalist only seeking truth? We are in the age of "instant celebrity" and many of these newly arising political fixtures are steming from the Communications field and not from prominent Law or Poli Sci backgrounds. That is easily explained by the "Palin Phenomenal" after trying several colleges and majors, the Alaskan Governor decided on journalism as her area of study even with a brief stint as a weather girl. Yet, we were all surprised when her national debut was a "dud" to the say the least. What is one to expect from an individual who was not smart enough to know she was ill prepared to step into the public light, and risked a certain opportunity to effect change with the luring idea of easy, ill earned fame.

What i am getting at, is simple, where did the intellects go? I mean the intellects who actually are on the ground with sleeves rolled up?? Those who have devoted significant time if not lifetimes to preparing for their chance to bring a real change to the muddy waters of politics. Many of those real intellects get lost in translation, especially if their ideologies are not enough to get the Dobbs or O'reily's angry enough to respond, In our society today spectators are able to sit on the sideline and not only keep a beach worthy tan, Ha! but able to shift gears into antagonists. They fuel the fire of divisive tactics to separate Race and Class with ignorant theories and witty one liners, They can have news channels dedicated solely to fear mongering and down right politically incorrect "witch hunts" and now it is simply called...."Good Journalism"

I ask you, the real investigative journalist, in this, the age of technology, to do the footwork and free your mind, dig past mainstream and see the what information is coming through the pipe line before it is chopped, screwed and made into 60 second snapshots intended for viewers who allegedly have short attention spans, prove the programmers wrong, and step outside the "Box" long enough to free your mind! Don't watch the news, make it...pick up your pen or your laptop and give your thought, who knows it might be a regular "joe" that comes up with the best compromise to the Senate's current dilemma on Health care reform, then we, the regular "Joe's" can realize we can take back this Country, one free mind at a time!!