So today due to the wind I was up much earlier than I am used to and I watched something that I normally don’t peer into at all, the hell that is morning news, and what I found out was striking.
- Breaking News has no meaning, it could be a broken down big rig on the freeway or a tactical nuclear strike, everything gets its own panicked on the scene anchor speaking about the horrifying news at hand.
- All media members are paparazzi, the mainstream media just deems those that chase after celebrities as arbitrarily beneath them.
- Britney Spears uber alles, it used to be “if it bleeds it leads”, today theres no catchy slogan but if its celebrity news it is the top story, no questons asked.
- Politics isn’t about ideals, positions or high minded proposals for the future, it is about a beauty contest and a horse race, plain and simple.
- When it comes to climate change, the media will give equal time to men of science and the batshit fringe who still deny it above all.
- If the weather does anything that is predictable but a slight change from the previous days weather it is automatically evil and everybody must panic.
- If someone has gone missing, and they happen to be an attractive white woman, we all have to freak out and panic, if they’re missing and not white and/or attractive well something extraordinary must have happened, like a kid is involved or something.
- Cute animals and human interest stories are the perfect finisher for a shitty newscast
- Issues of local or national importance that lack some form of human interest angle will not be covered, it’s not that infrastructure isn’t important or newsworthy, its just not sexy.
- Lastly, the biggest thing I have learned? EVERYBODY PANIC!
I know I am missing something but still this is what I have learned.