[BC] News in the 21st Century

[Rich Wood]

------ At 09:39 PM 4/5/2008, Robert Meuser wrote: -------

>If you take news seriously at all and you don't like what is said, 
>it is a liberal conspiracy if you are conservative and a right wing 
>conspiracy  if you are liberal. In fact it is neither. It is 
>commercially supported content.

That's a shame. I really like vast right wing and vast left wing 
conspiracies. I have to tell you, at least in Talk Radio, these are 
absolutely necessary for ratings. If Talk Radio were to deal honestly 
and intelligently with important issues the format would go the way 
of Easy Listening and Smooth Jazz.

In earlier times most news anchors were former newspaper guys. That's 
when Journalism was part of the business. Except in rare cases, 
that's long gone. Today there are two approaches that are guaranteed 
to work. One is to entertain us. The other is to instill fear or pass 
on the government's attempt to instill fear.

Personally, I prefer vast conspiracies to the vapid lives of Brittany 
and Paris, though I do find the recent epidemic of supermodels 
throwing fits on airplanes to be a lot of fun when they end up in 
police stations saying "don't you know who I am?" How humiliating 
when they don't.

Please don't take away our conspiracies. There have been enough jobs 
lost, already. I'd hate to see Limbaugh and Hannity on the bread 
lines. I wonder if Hannity, the superpatriot, flew to New Mexico to 
whip up a frenzy of pseudo patriotism. I'll be very disappointed if 
he didn't. It would be a bad sign for future ratings.

Rich