Emily Litella
(AKA Gilda Radner) must be looking down on us with a sly smile and the
bewildered look of hers when the real issue was finally explained by Jane
Curtain. We see this week’s focus of the
media is “fake news.” I say this week
because the media has been shown to be ADD when it comes to long term coverage
of any issue. For example, how long did
they cover “Deepwater Horizon” after the fire was put out and the oil stopped globing
up our beaches? How much coverage have
we seen of the Standing Rock fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline, or the
coverage of the Stein/Clinton recount efforts?
But now,
Brian Williams is going to lead the fight to insure only real honest news is
approved and reported. I have got to
hand it to NBC and its affiliates, if you are pushing a meme go all in with
your best faker. Someone who knows
exactly what to look for in the fake news department.
I am
instilled with such confidence! The next
four years offer much in the way of stupid news broadcasting from those
brilliant journalists of ABCNNBCBS, and in the print WP/NYT as they sort out
which fake news to declare as real and which to condemn as really, really,
fake.
1 comment:
I've found the last month mostly amusing. It's serious that the media have abdicated responsibility and that, therefore, they are in no position to hold the president responsible. Nevertheless, there's something ludicrously fun about their attempts to do so. It's like watching a grotesquely ugly and slutty woman trying desperately to flirt with a mannequin.
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