There was for me a wonderful moment during the presidential debate on Tuesday night. Mitt Romney had just made a statement and the moderator, Candy Crowley, immediately said to Mr. Romney, "That's not true." I can't remember the last time I heard someone who was functioning in the position of being a journalist actually doing their job. Most Americans now get what passes for news from television. As we all know the content of television is controlled by ratings. The networks are owned by the very same large corporations that have gradually gained control of our political process. "News" is therefore defined as whatever will generate the highest ratings rather than the information that is vitally important for us to have an educated electorate. That's why we know far more about what Lindsay Lohan had for breakfast than we do about the real consequences of Paul Ryan's budget plan.
So thank you Candy Crowley for a brief glimpse of how great television could be.
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Good for her! I cringe to think of how American society is spoonfed by the media with such a bizarre concoction of information. I was working with a client last week who commented about how biased the media was. He said it was a shame that the only unbiased reporting was done by Fox news. :)
ReplyDeleteYes, Fox and Rush supply us with all the essential food groups. :)
ReplyDeleteThe Lee Atwater, Rove, Limbaugh, ilk are profiteers of a class war. We will see schools privatized, fire dept., first responders privatized, prisons.... oh wait. The rushketeers reach for the darkest side of human nature and suck in the most vulnerable, by constantly casting themselves and their listeners as the victims in all of this, all the time knowing it was the ideologues they worked for, attempting to created a place where the 'big deal' couldn't be afforded any longer.
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