Wednesday, April 18, 2007
The Media - "So What's the Bad Word Today?"
The media is obviously bad for our news health, if not more...
Bill Murchison discusses it at TownHall.com:
"The news -- let's own up to it -- is dreadful.
The glaciers are melting; the terrorists are advancing; Iran, after getting away with the kidnapping of 15 Britons, has begun enriching uranium; hardly anybody professes to like the president of the United States; Don Imus makes a bigger donkey of himself than he was by crawling to Al Sharpton, racial trickster extraordinaire, for forgiveness of a racial insult; and ... and ... I think that's enough for now.
In this image released by the US Army, Republican Senator from Arizona and a presidential hopeful John McCain, second left, and the commander of the US forces in Iraq Gen. David Petraeus, left, visit the popular Shorja market in central Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday April 1, 2007. McCain charged that the American people were not getting a 'full picture' of progress in the security crackdown in the capital.
It isn't that nothing good goes on. A lot of good goes on. We merely tune it out. Or, as more often is the case, the media tune it out for us, understanding as they do the human love of the awful.
We claim -- we, in the media -- not to be doing this. Instead, we claim just to be relating what's out there. Well, come on, bros. I've been in this business for nearly 40 years -- you can't fool me. We go to town on bad news."
