Christopher Morley once noted that the only good life is to live it in your own way. The same holds for the truth. If you really want it, you're going to have to look for it yourself.
Here's a read if you have any sense of wanting to ever discover the truth one should plow through. The glorious year of 1913 birthed two huge whammies on the American public, the IRS and the Federal Reserve.
Some claim it's been downhill ever since. Take the time to do your homework and then decide for yourself. Don't let some MSM wag decide for you. MSM is on its last legs. This is only one reason they're coming after the Internet so strongly.
Given the recent call for auditing, there's a bunch of ruffled Federal Reserve feathers of late. A cynic might ask: "What's up with that?"
Hardly anyone watches television any more and many of those who do program what they watch. Advertising revenue has taken a huge hit and the moguls are getting their silk panties twisted in a bunch.
The panic will arrive later when the end becomes crystal clear. These boys and girls will have to find a new gig, a nettlesome problem for all.
A recent Financial Times article, "Switch to on-demand TV alarms broadcasters," had the sub-headline: "Concerns grow over falling audiences for 'linear' television and the impact it will have on advertising revenue."
A sidebar noted the growing viewer switch to DVDs, Netflix and catch-up services. Hello Bill O'Reilly and Brian Williams. The nightly news with few exceptions has been a joke for a long time.
If it gets any more filtered it will wind up in its rightful place, a late night infomercial.
With YouTube to watch, Instagram pictures to take and Facebook, Snapchat and other social media platforms to explore, a generation of young Americans that used to turn on television for entertainment is finding its fix elsewhere.
Isn't that what the so-called news has become, entertainment.
TV executives started sounding the alarm last autumn when Viacom, 21st Century Fox, Comcast, which owns NBCUniversal, and Walt Disney began reporting lower advertisi9ng revenues for some or all of their networks.
According the the report the trend has continued to the latest financial results.
BET, which is aimed at African-American audiences, fell 22 per cent, the children's network Nickelodeon was down 17 per cent and MTV fell14 per cent.
As one mogul put it, "Its no secret there are far-reaching shifts taking place in our industry."
Yes, indeed there is. And one of the biggest benefactors with any luck may be the truth.
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