The New White House Massah

Could the Mason Dickson line of political demarcation be more polarized? Could media images be more deceptive? Could the now defunct television show “Spin City” be more relevant to American society? The answer is yes, and now with the election of a young, black, entrepreneurial president the extreme right is having to make some changes. Nowhere can that be seen more than “Meeting the Press.” While Keith Olbermann and MSNBC appropriately once represented Barack Obama’s liberal views, their network like the rest of tabloid news media has been susceptible to the contagion of selling soap. With the ensuing economic crisis news reporting on television will become more bipolar as desperation sets in the networks. The bottom line, while tactfully obscured during the Bush administration, will become exposed for what it is. No longer can media afford to “spin” the news to sell their product. The jig is up. The fat lady has sung. Media has met her maker. The “checks and balances” of Capitalism have weighed in ironically as millionaires’ vacation homes burn in a fiery inferno in Montecito, California. Is satan making his last appearance from the pit of purgatory? From watching the tube with the sound turned down, it would difficult to tell the political affiliation of the accompanying traveling salesman. At least Larry King wears suspenders lending a remote reminder of what he represents. With the age of Political Correctness these lines purposefully have become obscured. Media, with the backing of corrupt forces in government firmly ensconced in corporate America, have “spun” reality keeping the American people in the dark. It is similar to Hank Paulson’s handling of the credit lending industry’s bailout. “Watch the hands of the magician! First is goes here, then it goes there, like magic the balls disappear.” Keeping the people in the dark has been the name of the game of the Bush administration. You can hear Vice President Dick Cheney guffaw at the thought of leaving behind the White House’s “private” documents. Expose Halliburton? The media is struggling with their new identity. “You mean we no longer have to rail on President Bush for enacting unconstitutional legislation? We no longer are responsible for having Barack Obama elected the new President of the United States? What are we to do?” When the quintessential philosophical qualifications of media return, suddenly it becomes a different game. “Pop” sensibilities disappear like Billy Ray and Miley Cyrus. Simon is sent packing back to the U.K. to start his own boy band. Rupert Murdoch returns to Australia to, “Put some more shrimp on the barbee!” With a reputable, intelligent, forward-thinking president in the White House, media becomes a different game. Class could return to the airwaves. Classical music and jazz could return to Washington, DC. Society could return to its earned placed in American history. The cobbled path of slavery, littered with men’s souls singing work songs in fields of cotton, has been trekked by Barack Obama straight to the doors of the White House. Symbolically resembling a huge plantation home, Barack Obama navigated a riverboat of Chicago dreams right up to master’s doorstep. Ding dong! “Excuse me sir, I deserve my mint julep. I’ll take it on the White House lawn. Now let’s see if all them white folk in media can sing a song for me.”