Cut & Course.

Our leaders, through the want or desire they hold within themselves, use only what power and capability they are given or have come to obtain through persuasion to fulfill their aspirations. President Bush's press conference two days ago was not an address from the Nation's leader. Nor was it an articulated assessment from the governmental bodies on current events. It was an opportunist’s summoning. Rather than tell the people, whom he has sworn to represent, of the best policy in foreign affairs, military action, debt reduction, economic growth or showing concern for those people he has never known, President Bush attacked the political party that opposes his own in a bid to place them in a shadowy image. For shame.

Edward R. Murrow's 1958 address says it all for me. The media is no longer reporting the news. It is a body meant for exploitation of our desires to further those of our leaders. Indeed, "The fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our stars; but in ourselves." -J. C.