TV or Not TV?

 

TV or Not TV?

   That is the question.  Whether to watch the trial of a former President tried, in real time, or receive the editorial opinion of a biased reporter.  That is the choice.  The choice will not be made by you, the citizens of The United States, but by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a man who leads a small group of Supreme Justices, who have no firm legal guidelines and like it that way.  The right to receiving bribery is embraced by our Supreme Court.

   What would be the advantage of giving each citizen of our nation the opportunity of witnessing firsthand the criminal trial of an ex-president of The United States?  It would move the nation toward fact driven public opinion.  Public opinion today is largely driven by partisan news sources.  We have the technical ability, with TV coverage, to offer reality rather than opinion of a historic event.  This TV coverage would not be magic.  We would still watch the coverage through our own bias, but at least the incoming data would be true.   

   I watch Left Wing news (MSNBC & CNN).  I find their political propaganda less insulting to my intelligence than the Right Wing (Fox) propaganda.  The spin coverage by either source will not be enlightening.  Long ago we were able to watch The Watergate Hearings.   In fairness, it was not a trial, but a legislative hearing.   They were re-broadcast in the evening, so that working people could witness them.  That was a better day.  Moving downward we experienced the evidence from the Kennedy Assassination being locked in the archives for 50 years.  As folks started to live longer, another 25 years were added.  The time for the full release of the events of the assassination of John Kennedy … is never!  Folks who tried to understand that event are called Conspiracy Theorists.  To me, it was the birth of The Gullible Nation.  Seventy-five years in the archives (and then some) equals no cameras in the courtroom.

   We live in a world now where a woman could vote for a man who would say that if a woman is attractive to him he, as a star, would just grab her by the pussy.  Or, “I wouldn’t rape her.  She isn’t my type.”  Woe unto those women who are his type.  We are a nation of political loyalists,  a nation of the Willfully Blind.  But we can claw our way back up the slippery slide.  We can demand to see the greatest event in our nation’s history, un-politicized.   Televise the trial in its entirety.  Let truth back into freedom.

   And what of the argument for not televising the trial?  Certainly there must be one.  A MAGA Republican (a fool) might argue that the nation would be better served with politicized knowledge only.  “The loyalists follow the under tail scent of the lemmings in front of them.”   Or that this man who places his name in large letters on his aircraft, or sleeps with porn stars while his wife delivers his child is entitled to his privacy.  This man did not enter the political arena with privacy in mind.   I apologize.  I am presenting an ad homonym argument against the man, not the precedent.  “Any action taken against the public good needs to be exposed without bias to the public.”  Let unedited television ring.

Cheers, Old Buz          8/03/2023

“If you have nothing to hide … you have nothing to hide.” – Old Buz

 

P.S. I am obviously a loyalist, but I am lucky enough to be right on this particular issue.  Truth and knowledge should not be a political hurdle.