How the Citizen's United decision hurts us all (#1094)

You will rarely find me here, on this blog, commenting on specific judicial/political actions but in this one case I am going to make an exception. News outlets and information gathering practices have been adversely affected by this decision because what is news is now controlled by whomever has the deepest pockets. In Canada, Fox news was not allowed a license because Canada has "truth" standards and Fox news did not meet Canada's standards. Not so here in America where the marketplace is ripe for disinformation and misinformation based upon not fairness or truth but instead on sensationalism. We citizens of America are left to learn about the "truth" of a thing, not by being informed by the media, but to our own available devices. Now that money from Citizen's United has been allowed to flood our airwaves with unlimited ads portraying subjective information as truth, as opposed to objective information for us to make up our own minds, we, the citizens of America are the ones who are and will continue to be led around through someone else's reasoning. Our news sources and information offerings are not obliged to tell us the truth, therefore, now that more money has come into play for the wealthy to use in disseminating what amounts to as propaganda, how do we find out the truth of the matters before us? We do our own research, through the Internet, public libraries and governmental offices. However the assault on our ability to learn for ourselves is and is continuing to become more difficult. As more have less money to afford luxury items like computers and Internet service, as more libraries close as wasteful public spending and as the Freedom of Information Act is being restricted, we are left in a dilemma. Getting unlimited money out of our information genre's and establishing a truth in news law similar to Canada's is the best we can do for now except to scream into the wind.