By GottaLaff
Earlier I posted about the abysmal state of the news media. Once it devolved into a business of reporting for profit, instead of allowing the news to be independent of commercial media, we were sunk.
Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash, via my pal Mark Karlin, provides another take that dovetails with my own. Here are a few excerpts:
BuzzFlash has long editorialized that the world of corporate interests, politics, journalism, and entertainment have largely merged. [...]
But although [Jon] Stewart was the straw that broke Crossfire's back, its legacy lives on across the nation in television and radio political slugfests that do little to enlighten public policy, but provide us a ringside seat at the fights.
As [P.M.] Carpenter noted in the end of his commentary on January 12:
Calling for an end to this national behavior is equally "unbearably pointless." Everyone is aware of it, but the addiction holds, and worsens. Perhaps this is merely what a declining empire looks and sounds like.
[...] It seems that even us progresssives, including at times BuzzFlash, can't remove ourselves from sensationalistic fascination with a gaper's block, because the corporate mainstream media keeps repeating it day after day, hour after hour, minute after minute.
Entertainment is always a strategically effective diversion for the non-elite classes from the true issues that confront the nation and them: concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few who want to keep the country club closed. [...]
We are a nation, with some exceptions, of World Wrestling Federation (Entertainment) political junkies.
That does not bode well for our future.
Please read the whole post here.
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