Beyond Conspiracy", I've come to the conclusion that not only was Thursday night's ABC special a complete loss of credibility for any news organization (I'm 22 and have never seen the blatant lies on network TV like I did with this show), but the American people must be stupid.
Typically, you will be able to catch the questionable "facts" the Big Three - Tom Brokaw, Dan Rather, Jennings - will throw out each night on the nightly news, but never in my entire life (or short journalism career) have I seen such blatant disregard for any shred of ethical standards such as the JFK special.
We all know the "official" story: a lone Marxist nut, Lee Harvey Oswald, angered by the U.S. government's attempts to rid the world of Fidel Castro, taking refuge on the sixth floor of a textbook warehouse in downtown Dallas, only to fire three shots in less than nine seconds, killing President John F. Kennedy.
You could have plastered the television screen Thursday with the word "Bullshit" and it would have been the same thing. The ABC show came out with their irrefutable proof that Oswald acted alone and killed Kennedy, then briefly highlighted some notable explanations from conspiracy theorists on the matter, including Oliver Stone, who directed the 1991 blockbuster JFK.
A majority of Americans, according to Jennings and many of the Warren Commission-supporting "experts" he interviewed, believe the killing of our 35th president was a conspiracy.
Many of those, Jennings later pointed out, believe our own government carried out the conspiracy.
Indeed, a secret pact with the major networks and major daily newspapers like the New York Times and a CIA agent is reason enough to become highly suspect; the accord, according to the actual government document [link: http://www.jfkmurder.com] states journalists, to abide by the government's official word, could "write book and movie reviews" to discredit the conspiracy theorists; and, it continues, a good way to character assassinate a non-conforming member of the media profession - or any profession really - is to describe them as "Communist propagandists."
Real document. That in itself explains the entire reason for the Jennings special, but a lot of what his show left out is completely amazing.
I mean, we really must be stupid.
In 1979, the House of Representatives found that there had been a conspiracy. This was the government! The government, though not revealing too much, came out publicly with the conclusion, yet ABC News holds on to the "Americans are really just that stupid" line.
Kennedy, with his private life aside, was a man of the people before he was executed.
His orders to abolish the Federal Reserve, the CIA, and withdrawal men from Vietnam did not sit well with many government officials.
He warned of a "great threat that I must warn the American people about."
The man who dared to stand up publicly against plans for a future world government could not be left in power.
The government conspired to kill Kennedy. That is a fact. It's documented [link: http://www.prouty.org]. It's well known.
As much as Peter Jennings, ABC, and the mainstream media would like to think, we are not in fact stupid.
Thursday night's show was the most despicable program I have ever seen in my 22 years of life.
Not once have I ever seen the lies, the attempts at character mischaracterization and cover-up.
Journalists everywhere - if they have any dignity or integrity - should be ashamed.
Ashamed that our profession's duties once responsible for being a watchdog on government...are now a fourth branch of the government. |
