When the news media became a part of the Entertainment industry
10.13.2006
Instead of simply informing, they give you their opinions. Instead of analyzing, they give you one view. Instead of fulfilling their responsibility to report the news to American people, they seek to entertain, in effort to increase ratings.
What they've created, perhaps unintentionally, is a media complex that is a threat to this nation's well being. And what was the reactionary spawn that worsened our position further? Talk radio. Dominated by conservative viewpoints, this medium has replaced and is preferable to objective journalism in the hearts and homes of many Americans. This may be a consequence of Vietnam-era journalism, persisting even today, which espouses leftist viewpoints almost exclusively, and often alienates parts of its audience. So, they've flocked to greener acres, where their own viewpoints can be better reinforced, and they can live happier knowing that they are in no small company.
It may be impossible to report without interjecting a bit of oneself, but the media has a responsibility to inform nonetheless, and should consider taking a side contrary to their mission. Yet, retaliating against the rising popularity of talk radio, rather than scaling back the degree of bias in the news media, they elected to hire actors to play the parts of conservative and liberal, pitting them together in a debate of righteousness. This has become the manner in which the media reports the news, and has done more to divide the country than all the politicians on Capital Hill combined, who have undoubtedly been influenced by this themselves.
posted by Henry Emerson @ 11:12 AM,
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