What the?
What the?, I stopped watching the cable news channels and the ‘big three’ networks because of the way they teased me with stories just to keep me hanging on through the next commercial break only to find out finally towards the end of the program that the story was an overhyped commercial just to get me to sit through the whole thing until the end. I know the mainstream media has a liberal bias and that goes without saying so I’m not going to touch that one. Besides, anyone who is fair minded can see that anymore so more and more people are getting their eyes opened. But it’s becoming painfully obvious that 24 hour news stations are having a hard time filling up all of that time with ‘news.’ So what’s the result? The news broadcasts are looking more like ‘entertainment tonight’ or tabloid shows. I’ve been getting my news lately from the internet because I can avoid that junk and go right to the stories that I really want to read…but that appears to be falling prey to the same trouble. Case in point - the CNN homepage this morning had approximately 35 stories linked on their front page, with the following stories listed among the 10 most important…
• Woman marries dead boyfriend
• Swimmer drives for help with shark attached to leg
• Sea lion leaves ocean for 65-mile trip inland
Is this CNN or the ‘weekly world news’ at the checkout aisle of my local grocery store? Tomorrow I expect to see that Elvis is going to be running this year as a 2004 Democratic Presidential candidate.
Tags: News and Media
