Pat Dollard

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…and this guy is more knowledgable and qualified to speak on the state of the media, the government, and foreign policy than you or I because…of what? His career path in the “Arts”???

Hey Tim, I heard Nader may run again…shouldn’t you be licking envelopes or actually doing something useful?

He almost hit something noble by calling for the mainstream media to be more truthful, but, if that were to happen all of his illusions regarding Iraq would be shattered, and I think he just wanted them to focus more on perceived crimes he thought might have occurred during the current Presidential Administration. I mean, since he obviously disagreed with so much of the Bush foreign policy, it had to be criminal…right?

(B&C) Las Vegas — Actor Tim Robbins, noting that he has been labeled a traitor for previous comments he made about this nation and its pre-emptive war in Iraq, pre-empted a planned dialogue on new media at the National Association of Broadcasters’ annual show and launched a profanity-laced attack on both the state of the country and the consolidation of viewpoints being carried by national media.

We are at an abyss as an industry and as a country,” Robbins said.

Robbins described that abyss using expletives that would not be allowed on free over-the-air radio or television by the Federal Communications Commission. In addition to using the common vulgarity for copulation, known as the f-bomb, Robbins joked that “Die, you Nazi c___suckers” was the lesser known of Edward R. Murrow’s signoffs at the end of his London blitz broadcasts.

Robbins didn’t hesitate to bite the hand of the media. He said the radio industry had been on the way to creating a single “national playlist” before XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio came along, and he criticized other national media for not relentlessly pursuing what he carefully but clearly implied were lies of the current president, George W. Bush, in the relentless fashion they went after his predecessor, Bill Clinton, for his sexual dalliance with an intern.

He also called on the industry to turn back from a kind of reporting that reduces the variety of voices being delivered on any given issue and distracts the public with excessive reporting about starlets stepping out of cars with no panties on. Such news takes “no energy” and requires little thought, he said.

Tim…that’s like calling on crack dealers to stop selling crack. Too much demand. And it is a result of your own ilk’s idiotic world views run amok.

“Shouldn’t broadcasters see themselves as part of a larger picture, isn’t there an obligation to honestly report on what’s going on, to pursue stories past their headlines,’’ Robbins said. “Haven’t criminal acts occurred in government? Shouldn’t there be accountability for inept policy decisions? Shouldn’t someone be fired? And you know something? I didn’t hear any of that, because I am still thinking about that starlet getting out of the car without the panties.”

Satellite technology provides music people actually want to hear, he noted. And “just when we were close to a national news media providing a general consensus on what the truth is,” he added, “along comes the Internets [sic] that allows its users a choice on the kind of news it watches and the YouTube. My God, we’ve got to stop them.”

Stop them? That is, um, not the right Constitutional answer Timmy-boy, you been studying Stalin again? The answer is not stop them, but answer them, counter them, challenge them in the marketplace of ideas, not try and silence them.

“Enough is enough,” he said. “Now is the time to move away from our lesser selves. Now is the time to stop making money on the misfortunes of others and the prurient and salacious desires” of the public.

I think you had better look at your own body of work before you go looking for other black kettles there, Timmy boy.