Listen here media, I've got something to say!
January 24th 2008 00:06
This afternoon, after missing a thousand court dates pertaining to her children’s’ custody, Britney Spears, surprisingly missed another. Personally, I didn’t see it coming. Aside from this the DOW fell more than 200 points after at .75 percent rate cut the Fed approved on early Monday morning. Solidifying the fact that no one actually regards Martin Luther King Day as a national or federal day of remembrance, but a day to get things finished without the boss looming over your shoulder. So, what of the fact that General Motors aren’t selling cars, Buick is number one in Japan, and if I know one thing, I know that the Japanese are always up on some new shit.
But how does this affect me, my community, my constituents, business partners, and most of all my enemies? These are the questions that the news media are trying to combat. Their answer, so far and however, have all been pretty monotonous. Let the people pick their own news, but remember, keep it blonde, keep it pretty, and most of all, keep it American. FOX News Network introduced “U REPORT” in late 2006, MSNBC mirrored their campaign for viewer/media interaction with “FIRST PERSON”. Both of these “Choose your News” programs were put in place so that viewers felt in power. Surprisingly enough, there still isn’t anything new on television, more pics of Spears travelling to and from Starbucks and CVS Pharmacies across the west coast. Beyonce falling down stairs at a concert gets more hits than Mitt Romney in a verbal tuft with Associated Press journalist Glen Johnson on terms of lobbyists being tied to his Presidential campaign.
But now we are faced with a dilemma. Actor Heath Ledger was found dead late yesterday night. His body wasn’t lying next to the fourteen people killed in a northern Iraq explosion. It was next to a rolled up twenty-dollar bill and a few prescription sleeping pills. And maybe I’m getting a little too cynical, but what of the entertainment industry. It has close ties to the news media, sharing the same studios, writers, and often times researchers. Is that why they hold such precedents when it comes to breaking news?
There are a million things that are more tragic in my eyes then the death of one lonely, rich actor who apparently (but for legal purposes, allegedly) had a drug habit. For example, what if a journalist went all out, and answered the hard questions. Why do the voting patterns of a presidential candidate matter? No candidate has ever been strictly consistent with their political leanings since the notion of ‘lobbying’ and company buyout were introduced to the American democracy (basically, since the birth of the USA). Why are the only jobs that allow you to make more than one mil a year without a degree and a drug test in the entertainment industry? If its time for the news to ask us what is happening, why aren’t we able to tell them what we to see. Or do you really want to be bombarded with which celebrity wears panties? Because I couldn’t care less, news wasn’t created for the shallow, self-involved. Its for the educated, those that have a want to understand what is going on in the world. What we have done, yeah I said we, is destroyed the principles that news once sat on. Those of integrity and worthiness.
But how does this affect me, my community, my constituents, business partners, and most of all my enemies? These are the questions that the news media are trying to combat. Their answer, so far and however, have all been pretty monotonous. Let the people pick their own news, but remember, keep it blonde, keep it pretty, and most of all, keep it American. FOX News Network introduced “U REPORT” in late 2006, MSNBC mirrored their campaign for viewer/media interaction with “FIRST PERSON”. Both of these “Choose your News” programs were put in place so that viewers felt in power. Surprisingly enough, there still isn’t anything new on television, more pics of Spears travelling to and from Starbucks and CVS Pharmacies across the west coast. Beyonce falling down stairs at a concert gets more hits than Mitt Romney in a verbal tuft with Associated Press journalist Glen Johnson on terms of lobbyists being tied to his Presidential campaign.
But now we are faced with a dilemma. Actor Heath Ledger was found dead late yesterday night. His body wasn’t lying next to the fourteen people killed in a northern Iraq explosion. It was next to a rolled up twenty-dollar bill and a few prescription sleeping pills. And maybe I’m getting a little too cynical, but what of the entertainment industry. It has close ties to the news media, sharing the same studios, writers, and often times researchers. Is that why they hold such precedents when it comes to breaking news?
There are a million things that are more tragic in my eyes then the death of one lonely, rich actor who apparently (but for legal purposes, allegedly) had a drug habit. For example, what if a journalist went all out, and answered the hard questions. Why do the voting patterns of a presidential candidate matter? No candidate has ever been strictly consistent with their political leanings since the notion of ‘lobbying’ and company buyout were introduced to the American democracy (basically, since the birth of the USA). Why are the only jobs that allow you to make more than one mil a year without a degree and a drug test in the entertainment industry? If its time for the news to ask us what is happening, why aren’t we able to tell them what we to see. Or do you really want to be bombarded with which celebrity wears panties? Because I couldn’t care less, news wasn’t created for the shallow, self-involved. Its for the educated, those that have a want to understand what is going on in the world. What we have done, yeah I said we, is destroyed the principles that news once sat on. Those of integrity and worthiness.
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