Greetings dazed and confused, you have become so conditioned with being bombarded with the trivial that you no longer ask yourself the crucial question of 'why are they telling me this?'
An extension of this phenomenon can be seen in the 'news' that the Michigan Republican who was running for president as a Libertarian has 'parked' his campaign after committing political suicide live on Bill Mahar's 'Real Time'.
What was Mr. Amash's mistake? He was running on the now long-vacant premise that people 'unfettered' by leadership would (somehow) figure out what they wanted. He must have uttered some variation of 'let the people figure it out' a half dozen times during his twenty-minute opportunity to stump for public support of his campaign on a nationally syndicated program and he came away looking as clueless as everyone else running for the position ofleader of the 'free world' moron-in-chief.
In a seemingly unrelated event, how many of you cringed for the reporters who did their best to turn branches knocked out of trees during a thunderstorm into a life-threatening event? Thunderstorms are a fact of life and so are tornadoes. The difference is not every thunderstorm is a tornado.
Windstorms, like snowstorms, will occasionally knock down powerlines. Of interest but not necessarily news because it is not new. While I refer to a local event, this kind of reporting has become commonplace enough that I am sure you can relate. TV stations, desperate for ratings were doing contortions trying to make a common occurrence into 'news'.
Rain is wet isn't news yet the media treats it like it is.
Conversely, the fact people are dumb and gullible still passes for news every time they are successfully cozened...by a media that remains hard-pressed to produce content that is worthy of disseminating.
Bad enough that twenty minutes of a thirty-minute news segment is filled with advertising. [Which is the 'true purpose' of reporting the 'non-news'. Infotainment is the primary revenue generator of the for-profit ' news business model.]
'Real News' is something that is handled as 'breaking news' on the rare occasion that something worthy of reporting actually occurs.
What drives this desperation? Capitalism. News should be 'new' (or at the very least 'relevant'.) You don't need the guy sitting at the anchor desk to tell you that the sun is up, you can see what the sun is doing locally by looking out any window. It may become news if we have to resort to living underground thanks to rapacious capitalism destroying the environment in the relentless pursuit of fake 'profits'.
Let's hope the aberrant 'F-U Pay me' system is abandoned BEFORE it comes to that.
How ironic that Grammarly takes sarcasm for admiration...guess AI still has its bugs to be worked out.
How much is the average dolt going to be able to 'figure out' if the entity entrusted with reporting 'the news' proves incapable of sorting the mundane from the newsworthy?
In a related question, how does Fox News keep its charter?
This is nearly as incredible as Pussygrabber the Flag Humper being 'crowned' by the same feckless media as the leader of the free world? A world that has been brought to its knees by a virus named after the mock 'crown' it sports!
Now how much of what we are going through can be attributed to the 'Hokey-Pokey'? [If ya can't dazzle 'em with brilliance...]
That's for you to decide, I'm done.
Gegner
An extension of this phenomenon can be seen in the 'news' that the Michigan Republican who was running for president as a Libertarian has 'parked' his campaign after committing political suicide live on Bill Mahar's 'Real Time'.
What was Mr. Amash's mistake? He was running on the now long-vacant premise that people 'unfettered' by leadership would (somehow) figure out what they wanted. He must have uttered some variation of 'let the people figure it out' a half dozen times during his twenty-minute opportunity to stump for public support of his campaign on a nationally syndicated program and he came away looking as clueless as everyone else running for the position of
In a seemingly unrelated event, how many of you cringed for the reporters who did their best to turn branches knocked out of trees during a thunderstorm into a life-threatening event? Thunderstorms are a fact of life and so are tornadoes. The difference is not every thunderstorm is a tornado.
Windstorms, like snowstorms, will occasionally knock down powerlines. Of interest but not necessarily news because it is not new. While I refer to a local event, this kind of reporting has become commonplace enough that I am sure you can relate. TV stations, desperate for ratings were doing contortions trying to make a common occurrence into 'news'.
Rain is wet isn't news yet the media treats it like it is.
Conversely, the fact people are dumb and gullible still passes for news every time they are successfully cozened...by a media that remains hard-pressed to produce content that is worthy of disseminating.
Bad enough that twenty minutes of a thirty-minute news segment is filled with advertising. [Which is the 'true purpose' of reporting the 'non-news'. Infotainment is the primary revenue generator of the for-profit ' news business model.]
'Real News' is something that is handled as 'breaking news' on the rare occasion that something worthy of reporting actually occurs.
What drives this desperation? Capitalism. News should be 'new' (or at the very least 'relevant'.) You don't need the guy sitting at the anchor desk to tell you that the sun is up, you can see what the sun is doing locally by looking out any window. It may become news if we have to resort to living underground thanks to rapacious capitalism destroying the environment in the relentless pursuit of fake 'profits'.
Let's hope the aberrant 'F-U Pay me' system is abandoned BEFORE it comes to that.
How ironic that Grammarly takes sarcasm for admiration...guess AI still has its bugs to be worked out.
How much is the average dolt going to be able to 'figure out' if the entity entrusted with reporting 'the news' proves incapable of sorting the mundane from the newsworthy?
In a related question, how does Fox News keep its charter?
This is nearly as incredible as Pussygrabber the Flag Humper being 'crowned' by the same feckless media as the leader of the free world? A world that has been brought to its knees by a virus named after the mock 'crown' it sports!
Now how much of what we are going through can be attributed to the 'Hokey-Pokey'? [If ya can't dazzle 'em with brilliance...]
That's for you to decide, I'm done.
Gegner
Now how much of what we are going through can be attributed to the 'Hokey-Pokey'? [If ya can't dazzle 'em with brilliance...]
ReplyDeleteThat's for you to decide, I'm done.
you have become so conditioned with being bombarded with the trivial that you no longer ask yourself the crucial question of 'why are they telling me this?'
ReplyDeleteRain is wet isn't news yet the media treats it like it is.
ReplyDeleteBad enough that twenty minutes of a thirty-minute news segment is filled with advertising. [Which is the 'true purpose' of reporting the 'non-news'. Infotainment is the primary revenue generator of the for-profit ' news business model.]
ReplyDeleteWhat drives this desperation? Capitalism. News should be 'new' (or at the very least 'relevant'.) You don't need the guy sitting at the anchor desk to tell you that the sun is up, you can see what the sun is doing locally by looking out any window. It may become news if we have to resort to living underground thanks to rapacious capitalism destroying the environment in the relentless pursuit of fake 'profits'.
ReplyDeleteWhat was Mr. Amash's mistake? He was running on the now long-vacant premise that people 'unfettered' by leadership would (somehow) figure out what they wanted. He must have uttered some variation of 'let the people figure it out' a half dozen times during his twenty-minute opportunity to stump for public support of his campaign on a nationally syndicated program and he came away looking as clueless as everyone else running for the position of leader of the 'free world' moron-in-chief.
ReplyDeleteWindstorms, like snowstorms, will occasionally knock down powerlines. Of interest but not necessarily news because it is not new. While I refer to a local event, this kind of reporting has become commonplace enough that I am sure you can relate. TV stations, desperate for ratings were doing contortions trying to make a common occurrence into 'news'.
ReplyDeleteRain is wet isn't news yet the media treats it like it is.
How much is the average dolt going to be able to 'figure out' if the entity entrusted with reporting 'the news' proves incapable of sorting the mundane from the newsworthy?
ReplyDelete