Letter to the editor: What the media tells us

Things that won’t get printed in any newspaper or reported on the news: The two greatest works of American fiction are “The 9/11 Commission Report” and “The Warren Commission Report.” It’s easier to accept “Alice in Wonderland” and “The Cat in the Hat” as serious reportage than these two government white papers.

We’re told Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in prison. The most notorious prisoner in the world, who held the secrets to the perverted sexual crimes of world leaders, royalty, academicians, business moguls, celebrities and more, kills himself in prison while the only two guards on watch fall asleep and all of the security cameras fail at once … really?

America’s greatest crime families aren’t those with Italian names like Luciano, Gambino and Genovese, but those with names like Bush and Clinton. The dirty deeds, death and destruction said to be done by the latter make those of the mafia look like shoplifting offenses.

Big pharma, Big Ag, Big Oil, Big Tech, Big Banks and Big Media are all corporate terrorists in bed with Big Government. They have total control of our lives and it’s a very, very Big Deal.

But the conditioned populace believe otherwise, because like Joe Jackson and John Fogerty sang, they “Read it in the Sunday Papers” and “Saw it on the TV,” so it must be true. The media is our Svengali. We stare at our screens, no longer able to critically think. And like Winston Smith, we will soon believe that two plus two equals five.

Steven Crichley

South Side