What isn't newsworthy these days??
I just read a headline "Obama Swats Pesky Fly During Interview". Because that is what I want to read about in the ten minutes of down-time I have per day. And how a group of 30,000+ crazy, 1st Amendment Rights haters want CBS to fire David Letterman for an off-color joke that was accidently and incorrectly directed towards a minor whose mother's questionable morality and parenting skills are already a tabloid favorite. LIGHTEN UP. Even Palin, whose week-long tirade permeated the airwaves, newspapers and bandwidth, has accepted the apology and dropped the topic.
My belief is that there are too many media outlets and not enough news - that once reputable reports now go digging for the most sensationalistic stories, true or not, in the spirit of competition. Where does that leave the general public? Discussing Jon and Kate, David and Sarah over the water cooler, instead of Obama's newest health care policy ideas or that this is the last year for a once iconic vehicle to be launched into OUTER SPACE.
2 comments:
nice. I gave up watching the news, I found it wasn't really worth it either.
Apparently PETA is getting on Obama about the fly swatting incident, saying he needs to be more sensitive to the welfare of even the smallest animals. Wait til they find out (because they will) that he use to step on ANTS as a child!
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