New Deal News Mission

On October 29, 1929, or Black Tuesday, the United States stock market crashed and marked the beginning of the "Great Depression." In America, almost overnight, unemployment rocketed from four percent to 25 percent. A series of Republican Presidencies and their economic policies ending with Hoover culminated in Republicans being pitched from office. In 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) introduced a series of economic reforms and programs known as "The New Deal."

Many historians credit FDR's aggressive reforms and programs for guiding the United States through the Great Depression and setting the stage for America becoming an economic power unlike any witnessed in human history.

In the United States today, constitutional democracy is under assault. Sadly, the threat doesn't come from external forces and enemies, but rather it is under siege by a stygian synergy between political party and corporate interests, which are in turn enabled by an impotent corporate-owned news media.

Contemporary American corporate-owned media has bought into a political construct often referred to as "objective" reporting. This notion of "objective" reporting is code for allowing politicians, corporations and other entities in need of spinning a message to interject opinion as fact.

The notion of "objective" reporting can also include interjecting a report within a report. Often the report slipped into the actual report has little or no relation to the original articles intent. Usually the report-within-a-report concept is employed as a means of "offsetting" information that the hyper-partisan reader or viewer, since the facts reflect poorly on their political view or party, might perceive as being slanted. The second-tier report is more likely to be viewed as either being favorable to the partisan or intended to soften the impact of the original report.

It is this site's mission not to engage in any form of "objective" reporting. We will do what media within a democracy is supposed to do - educate, inform and enlighten the people so that they can make wise choices regarding those they would choose to represent their interests in government.

In the United States and around the globe, corporate-owned media has perverted the very meaning of "news." This reality has place American and other Western Democracies into a black and dire state. Indeed, American and Western democracy could easily be diagnosed as being in the midst of a very real and "Great Depression."

Therefore, in the spirit of the man who, along with Churchill, helped save Western Democracy from the ravages of Hitler's war machine; we declare this site to be a "New Deal" for American media and Western Democracy!