h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/APWires/headlines/D81VGAHO0.html

For those who don't have the energy to click over and read, here's the summup:

The NRA is using its ample funding to create it's own TV shows, radio stations, and news coverage.

Is anyone else frightened by this, or am I just being extra paranoid today?

It's not even *this* that frightens me so much -- it's the idea of what might happen if all sorts of other groups follow suit. Can't you just see sitcoms about abortion coming?

I was frightened when I realized that Fox Broadcasting was deliberately slanting its news articles to the conservative, Republican right. After that, I realized that pretty much anything goes.

Oh, some good news is that Al Franken, Janeane Garofalo, and other notables will be forming a network of their own - a liberal news network which covers the liberal Democratic side of the news. We've got to have some sort of balance!

It's OK by me as long as I dont have to watch, that is what the channel changer is for.

We have freedom of expression here dont we, (say yes we do)

Worst case scenario people will like it and it will stay on for a long time, but if they like it so what.

Best case scenario it will drain the NRA's budget and put them out of business...There's an up side to just about anything.

What really scares me is people who have no understanding of guns yet feel free to talk incessantly about them.

NO I AM NOT A MEMBER OF THE NRA, AND I DONT OWN A GUN

For every conservative on talk radio there are three liberals on Television, all the other "news programs" slant the new the other way.

Fox news is just filling a niche market that is until recently empty.

Air America seems to have funding problems from the start, we'll see how well they entertain us like the other news programs.

Rush Limbah strives on controversy, eliminate the controversy and he's off the air also. What that means is not to rant about him just ignore him.

That is what all the other "news" is anyway entertainment. If they wanted to truly enform us then they wouldn't present 30 seconds of important story then move on to the next. They would fill the airwaves with actual journalism (WOW what a concept). It used to be that way (yeah I know its been a long time but it is still possible.)