Casey Anthony; The "News" Distraction

With the countless important events currently taking place throughout the world, and as we are in a shift towards a time of unparalleled disaster; economically, morally, and socially, the American people can’t get one thing off of our minds… Casey Anthony. While we in the U.S., or better said “our” representatives in government continue to take part in wars with what will be their sixth so-called “kinetic military action,” the American people are in a daze over the case of what may be a child murder carried out by the victims mother. In terms of publicity and media attention, the Casey Anthony trial can only be compared to O.J. Simpson’s murder trial during the 90s. The Casey Anthony trial, as the O.J. trial, has garnered the attention of both local and national news stations throughout the country and dominates every mainstream media news source. There is nowhere we can turn to get away from the “Case against Casey Anthony,” as it has been so cunningly titled for us by mainstream media sources. But with all the attention focused on one overexposed court case, the American people are diverted like a baby with a mobile over their crib, and not focused on issues that are are supremely more important.

While most normal people understand that any crime is a serious issue, especially one dealing with the murder of a child, it is hard for some to understand why so much publicity is given to this one case that affects a relatively small amount of people. As a society, while there are exceptions, there is relatively no need to further enforce the fact that killing a child is wrong, and this is demonstrated by the protestors who stood outside the Anthony home after the death of Caylee, and the large uproar that has arisen from the publication of the trial. Also, it is clear to me that while many Americans still understand the gravity of a murder, many have become desensitized to watching news stories about the murdering of innocent children. So why is the Casey Anthony case such a focal point for media outlets around the United States? This is a very important question that remains unasked by average news watchers and purposefully untouched by many major news sources.

When we sit down to watch the 6 o’clock news, whether it be local or national, we fail to understand where exactly the information we’re receiving comes from. For instance, when we sit down to watch the Casey Anthony trial many people think we are simply being presented a case because we need to be aware of the issue or because the people are requesting it. But, we are mistaken if we think everything on the news has been thoroughly investigated by a reporter and thought to be of dire consequences, and therefore in generosity presented to the public. Instead, many times, if not almost every time the news stories we read and watch are handed downed from higher ranking editors and other more prominent people within News Corporations, the Casey Anthony case not excluded. It is not very difficult to understand this concept, it is not mere coincidence that we can turn to several different news channels all owned by different corporations and see the same exact news stories, presented in the same exact context, with the same explanation, using the same sources, and coming from both “liberal” and “conservative” news stations. If we are completely honest with ourselves, and study mainstream news carefully, we can see that there are maybe three or four news stories that completely dominate our news stations for days and weeks while other more important stories go ignored. If we want to be intellectually honest people, we need to ask ourselves why certain subjects are never touched while other much less important subjects go overexposed. How many mothers have we heard in the past few years that have killed their children, yet their trials were never publicized as much as this case. The question is why?

The sad but most accurate reasoning behind what we see from most of our mainstream news sources is that clearly our news is handed to us with a very specific agenda and intended effect in mind. The truth about the publicity of the Casey Anthony case is that there really isn't anything special that has brought this specific case to the spotlight, meaning that we have seen similar cases before. Instead, what is special or peculiar is that the case arose at such a time that allowed it be manipulated and used to distract at the opportune time. Although we are told that sensationalism directs these types of issues in our news, it is not the main reason we see what we do from news sources. The truth is that our news, both local and national, is used as both a tool for forming mental processes and a method to distract from certain prominent and damning issues. It is coincidence that this case is taking place during a very controversial time in politics and election campaign time, but what is not a coincidence is the extreme publicity that the case has taken, especially over more important issues. Sadly, this has become commonplace with our mainstream media.

A very well established, but little stated fact, is that only six companies control almost all the news sources within the United States and actually throughout the world today. These six companies are News Corporation, Time Warner, Viacom, CBS, General Electric, and Walt Disney, and while we do get reporters that do independent work and investigate their own topics from these mainstream news sources, the majority of what we see is handed down from a top down approach rather than developing from the bottom up. In other words, higher raking officials in the companies see what is happening in the world and hand down what they want their employees to write about. So, rather than the most important news being discussed on news channels and many newspapers, only the handpicked news is presented and reaches the masses. Stop and ask yourself if you really think that these six mega corporations only care for people and want us to be aware of the all the issues? If this was the case, why don’t we here as consistently about the horrid actions NATO has taken to bomb Libya and kill innocent civilians? Why haven’t we heard the fact that people like John Mccain and others want the U.S. to send weapons and funding to Libyan rebels who have Al-Qaeda heavily involved in their actions?

As I previously mentioned, the United States is involved in at least six wars, which they call “kinetic military actions,” to make them seem less important. While we can hear some details here and there about these wars, we will never hear about them to the extent of something like the Casey Anthony or O.J. Simpson trials that have taken place. The agenda here is very clear for anyone who is willing to accept the implications of it; the mainstream media many times distracts you from more important issues to entertain you with smaller issues that aren’t relevant in order to cover up and protect certain agendas that may disgust average viewers. Now don’t get me wrong about the Casey Anthony trial, the murder of a child is absolutely important. But why is one child more important in the United States than a child killed by a bomb in Libya? Why can we turn on the news at any time of day and hear about the Casey Anthony trial, but we don’t hear about the children and civilians that are murdered as a result of NATO attacking Libya? These issues are tremendously more important and affect more people than one court case involving one mother and one deceased child, and while the case should not be dismissed, the emphasis in the news should be put on the fact that people are being killed daily in “kinetic military actions,” across the globe as we speak.

In the mainstream news we can hear about Lady Gaga, Lindsay Lohan, Justin Bieber, endless sports, and the Casey Anthony case, but we don’t hear the fact that U.S. President, Barack H. Obama vowed to disavow the “War Powers Act,” which was created as a way for the U.S. to take part in “military actions,” aka war without calling it one by name, as long as you wouldn’t last more than 60 days in the conflict. Of course, this act in and of itself violates Article 1, section 8 which states that “Congress shall have the power to… declare war,” but President Obama has stated that infringing the Constitution by not informing Congress and going to war without a declaration by Congress was not enough, he has to stay at war in Libya for longer than the 60 day period. But, it was no better with Republicans, we didn't hear anything in the news when George W. Bush was throwing the Constitution in the garbage and violating the 4th amendment left and right. We don’t hear about these illegal actions, which are enough to impeach a president; instead we’re bombarded with the irrelevant news of Schwarzenegger’s and Anthony Weiner’s marital unfaithfulness, hours and hours of unimportant local, national, and worldwide sports, and of course the crucial Casey Anthony case. We need to understand that the mainstream media’s goal is not to inform you on the facts or details or to give you the important news; it is there to gain power, present a message, and to give you a paradigm. These news stations are here to give the message that the kingpin CEOs and establishment want you to know and to instill the mindset they would have you use when judging the world. The Casey Anthony case is not as important as the current U.S. wars that are killing innocent children and civilians in numerous countries throughout the world, and we will never stop being in a constant state of war where we send loved ones to die and to kill others around the world if we don’t snap out of self-centeredness that is prevalent in America and remove our apathy towards the rest of the world.

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