old saying: "It Takes Two to Tango"

one, the "talking heads" serving up their version of the "facts", and two, the moronic zoned out television viewer buying it hook, line and sinker.

I recently purchased a book titled, "The Unreality Industry - The Deliberate Manufacturing of Falsehood and What it is Dong to our Lives". the authors are Ian I. Mitroff and Warren Bennis. the cover has a picture of a guy in a suit with a television for a head. the television screen shows a big SMILE. the picture brings to mind Aklim's comment: "The Bigger the Smile, the sharper the knife".

on another note, some years back, I caught a story that featured the inventor of the PET (Positive Emission Tommography) imaging machine. he was speaking to an audience at UCLA. he showed the student audience images of PET scans of the brain while listening to an audio source. the brain was lit up like a LIGHT BULB. then, he showed an image of the brain while viewing television. I"ll never forget it. the brain literally SHUTS DOWN. cold, out of commission, as in "We've powered down the brain and the television is now controlling us".

there is a reason it is called the Idiot Box.