Interactive News -- Mission

There are many reasons why the High Desert Interactive Wire was created. The primary reason being that, although people don't need to change their news reading habits from one media to another, there is a definite need felt in the community to make the news interactive. That is, to enable people to respond to what they read instantaneously and to contribute in the investigation for the bottom line.

There is also a true need for honesty in the news media. And although we don't pretend to be able to change this in our own power, we are committed to shining a light rather than cursing the darkness. If in case you don't agree that the news media is remiss in casting the issues we trust them to report to us in an honest light, please read the following quote from a National Press Club past leader: 


"There is no such thing at this date of the world's history in America
as an independent press.  You know it, and I know it.  There is not one
of you who dares to write his honest opinion, and if you did, you know
beforehand it would never appear in print.  I am paid weekly for
keeping my honest opinion out of the paper.  Others of you are paid
similar salaries for similar things. and any of you who would be so
foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking
for another job.  If I allow my honest opinions to appear in one issue
of my paper, before 24 hours, my occupation would be gone.  The
business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to
pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon and to sell his
country and his race for his daily bread.  You know it, and I know it,
and what folly is this toasting an independent press?  We are the tools
and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes.  We are the jumping
jacks.  They pull the strings, and we dance.  Our talents, our
possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men.  We are
intellectual prostitutes."
  - John Swinden, 1953, then head of the New York Times, when asked to
    toast an independent press in a gathering at the National Press Club
    (at a time when the public was not allowed to attend).

How does that strike you?

Please read on to the next quote which we also agree with in principle, although perhaps not to that degree: 
"The underground press serves as the only effective counter to a growing
power, and more sophisticated techniques used by establishment mass media
to falsify, misrepresent, misquote, rule out of consideration as a priori
ridiculous, or simply ignore and blot out of existence: data, books,
discoveries that they consider prejudicial to establishment interest..."
  - William S. Burroughs, author (censored by the U.S. government; his
    comments apply now to the underground e-press as well)

There is much more to speak of regarding our mission here at I Wire, but we'll reserve that for a future drafting of this page, and will announce all updates.

Please tell us what you think and we'll publish it in our next update!

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