NOT THAT IT MATTERS TO ANYONE BUT ME, THIS WAS WRITTEN TWO YEARS AGO AND I NEVER POSTED IT. BETTER LATE THAN NEVER...


Who Knows What is definitely what we should ask ourselves. Do we really know about Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton. Well, we definitely know who Hillary is since she has devoted many years of her life in the service of our country. Not everyone thinks she did a great job but she tried to do the best she could and there were not many that wanted to take on the responsibility she was willing to take on.

First, she showed us how she could be gracious as the "governor's wife" when she and Bill were in Arkansas and Bill was governor. Then as "first lady" of our country, as Bill was President, she showed what type of person she was with her ideas to help the middle class expand. I think this was seen by the very wealthy of our country and those that invest in this country, as a threat to their power and influence. It took some time, but the money control and wealth shifted back to the very few as the 401-Ks, IRA's and other money market products lost their values. People began to go back to work in order to pay the bills each month.

The very wealthy of this country benefitted by the swing and they have become the control of our economy once again and the middle class level of wealth has been shrinking over the years. Two jobs for each member of the family is the norm now. Some of the wealth has returned to select accounts but for the most part, the ones that lost it during the last recession will never get it back and will be working for the rest of their lives.

Our society is being manipulated by the media because the money owns the media. I don't mean just the nationally known media that get in the news on television every day but I mean every media outlet from local newspapers to network television programming and everything in between, has an owner with an agenda to generate as much revenue as possible through their programming advertisements and some have a political agenda too.

The more people they can claim tune in each day the more their air time is worth. There is a book printed with data taken from surveys and digital tracking through satellite listening and viewing showing the average age of the consumer of any given program and time slot of the day.

A marketing exec will refer to this book to pick the proper times and programs to place their client's message. Television, radio and most well-known print media will be represented by such a publication. The marketing exec pays for the subscriptions to the publications so they can better serve their clients.

To say that any news media is unbiased would be inaccurate. They have to be biased to attract investors and advertisers in the first place. So if we take what we see and read along with what we hear on radio with that "grain of salt" that we have all heard about, we will be able to decipher what is probably real and what is made up.

We use to hold reporters and managers of media outlets up to a higher standard. We as a society expected our reporters to check out stories before they published or broadcast them. Now we are so use to them feeding false information out there in favor of their agenda that we are not surprised or appalled is really what it should be.

We have come to expect our politicians to tell us misinformation to take our attention away from the real story. To give us something to talk about at work or at the game or in church. Oh yes, we love to talk about what is going on in the world, don't we? We love to be in someone else's business so it makes our messy lives feel less messy and more tolerable.