Tuesday, 07 July 2009

• Bread and (media) circuses

  from Ed Wallace:

  Is the media failing for dumbing down America?

  "...We used to be able to prioritize our real needs, then address and resolve those issues. Now with information overload, it appears, we are incapable of properly governing our country.

  I don’t mean to slight Michael Jackson’s once-formidable talent, nor do I dismiss his troubled personal life. But have we become so frivolous as a nation that any entertainer’s tragic and untimely death warranted more news coverage — day after day after day — than the real issues that will confront each of us now and in the all-too-near future?

  Apparently so.

  Most of us know more about the last two days of Jackson’s life than we know about the negotiations in which Washington forced GM and Chrysler into bankruptcy. You certainly know more about Jackson’s death that the names on the list of the 25 individuals who destroyed the world’s financial system. Of course, none of the 25 has died; they still work at the same jobs."

   

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