The root of all evil....
I really believe that the root of our current political problems can be laid at the feet of the men and women of the media. The newspapers and broadcast media of the past, the venerable print media so vital to our Nation's beginnings, the journalists who covered dispassionately the events of the day, the correspondents that risked their lives to provide us a glimpse of the strife others have faced, all of these great folks are apparently gone.
Today, the media in America is a ghostly shell of it's former glory. They have no integrity, rather exchanging that for ideology. They'd prefer to bring you their view, where their respected forebearers brought us the truth.
The sad facts are that as the media wields it's awesome power, they're doing more harm than good. Not just that their political bent is wrong en mass, but more because they've contributed to the "dumbing down" of the electorate. Rather than providing the facts and allowing the folks the opportunity to process them and come to their own conclusion, the media has taken the "thinking" away from the people. Now, whatever they see on the pages of the liberal newspaper, or hear on MSNBC or CNN, they take as gospel. No processing required!
The people in today's media are tearing down the great and noble edifices created by the likes of Edward R. Murrow and Ernie Pyle, Nellie Bly and Walter Cronkite. While they imbued their articles and broadcasts with their own "flavor" they did not often color the facts of that which they reported on. Often, their personal inflection was more an emotional response, genuine and proper, to the moving events of the day.
Today, we don't have many if any at all, of their ilk. Grossly, the biggest names in the business today are largely eye-candy, Hollywood types who do very little reporting if any. They read a script written for them by a team of ideologues, and perform in front of the camera or microphone. Hard, factual journalism is pretty rare these days.
Too bad, as it's at the bedrock of the foundations of our Nation. America can not long endure if the media takes sides, and uses it's powers of persuasion to direct events which it should by all rights merely report on.
Rest in peace, Journalism.
Today, the media in America is a ghostly shell of it's former glory. They have no integrity, rather exchanging that for ideology. They'd prefer to bring you their view, where their respected forebearers brought us the truth.
The sad facts are that as the media wields it's awesome power, they're doing more harm than good. Not just that their political bent is wrong en mass, but more because they've contributed to the "dumbing down" of the electorate. Rather than providing the facts and allowing the folks the opportunity to process them and come to their own conclusion, the media has taken the "thinking" away from the people. Now, whatever they see on the pages of the liberal newspaper, or hear on MSNBC or CNN, they take as gospel. No processing required!
The people in today's media are tearing down the great and noble edifices created by the likes of Edward R. Murrow and Ernie Pyle, Nellie Bly and Walter Cronkite. While they imbued their articles and broadcasts with their own "flavor" they did not often color the facts of that which they reported on. Often, their personal inflection was more an emotional response, genuine and proper, to the moving events of the day.
Today, we don't have many if any at all, of their ilk. Grossly, the biggest names in the business today are largely eye-candy, Hollywood types who do very little reporting if any. They read a script written for them by a team of ideologues, and perform in front of the camera or microphone. Hard, factual journalism is pretty rare these days.
Too bad, as it's at the bedrock of the foundations of our Nation. America can not long endure if the media takes sides, and uses it's powers of persuasion to direct events which it should by all rights merely report on.
Rest in peace, Journalism.
posted by Jerry at
11:54 AM
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