If a Tree Falls in the Forest...

 No doubt you've heard that old saying, "If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it, did it really fall?"

That philosophical question has been debated in the halls of prestigious institutions of higher learning for decades.  And nobody got shot or beat up or had their businesses burned to the ground.

I have a new question to add to this mix:  "If a riot happens in Portland and no "MainStreamMedia" (MSM) TV channel or Big City newspaper reports it, did it really occur?"

This question is not philosophical.  It's damn serious and a bit existential.  Let me add a slightly modified question for your consideration:  "If the TV channel you watch chooses not to report on news it finds "outside the approved DNC narrative," and that's the only channel(s) you watch, would you ever learn that Portland and Seattle and New York City and Baltimore and Kansas City and Atlanta and Chicago and now Kenosha were suffering through nightly riots and burning and looting and anarchy?"  

Did you watch the DNC Convention?  If you did you know there was absolutely no mention by anyone of the riots consuming many of our largest and oldest and "bluest" cities.  That there was no mention that our police are under attack daily and that many have been injured (more than one thousand!) or even killed (eight, so far!).  That they are retiring and quitting in droves!  That business owners in these cities have been forced to board them up and wait until somebody, somewhere, anywhere comes to their aid.  That many of these same cities are burned-out shells of their former selves, with tens of $Millions in damage (over $Two Billion, so far), and that the folks who watch CNN and MSNBC and NPR and PBS and ABC/CBS/NBC will never know because their preferred "corporate" media channel won't tell them about it?

I suggest that my readers shop around.  You might want to do as I do; watch all the cable channels and at least a few of those on broadcast.  Find out what they're pushing, and why.  Find out what major stories they're (intentionally) avoiding reporting.  However painful to your baser political leanings to undergo, watching what the "enemy" is doing is absolutely necessary for you to have a well-rounded understanding of just how close we are to losing our democracy.

And trust me, Pilgrim, we're damn close...