Have you heard what's going on with the government's almost trillion-dollar bailout and how your money is being spent? Do you know all you need to know about who's managing all that taxpayer money -- and how effectively it's being used?
Not if you're getting your news from cable TV. Judging by where the media are focusing their attention, you'd think the Blago/Burris/Reid and Kennedy/Paterson/Cuomo soap operas are the biggest issues facing the nation -- and that little thing about the potential collapse of the world's largest economy is just a sideshow.
Why have the media shown such relatively little interest in the utter lack of transparency about the bailout. Is it because they are still in campaign mode -- addicted to small bore, quick burn-out stories?
... more form Arianna Huffington after the click.
My comment: I swear, I'm going to throw my shoe through the TV if I'm subjected to more national news coverage of a burning house or a semi driving off the road and plowing into a tree. I don't need any more coverage of cute missing white blonds in the Caribbean or moms, who in a fit of postpartum depression, killed thier five children. I don't want "news" stories that ultimately effect MAYBE five people in a nation of three hundred million! I can think of better ways of exercising our national sense of voyeurism!
Walter Cronkite, Eric Severide, Chet Huntley and David Brinkley did more actual news in a half hour time allocation than Wolf Blitzer can manage to squeeze into a twenty four news cycle. Bill Orally asks questions and then shouts over the answers ... Chris Matthews is no better (though, at least his questions are marginally more intelligent and a little better informed).
The main stream news media has become a fiddler playing a recital of endlessly repetitive scales while the nation and the world goes up in flames.
What ever happened to "news you need to know"? Is this what these people went to J School for? Traffic reporting? "Dog bites man" stories? What a waste of their parents money! What a waste of my time! Your time!
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