The News Cracks Me Up

I have a journalist friend who graduated from Berkeley there in Northern California. So you know they are progressives. I use that term only to give you a jumping off point. Honestly, they're not. Progressives are forward thinking. That isn't a knock at my friend. He's much smarter than me. But rather an indictment on the education system. They are activist journalist and not news journalist. That is what today's media is. Most are activist. Because they need people to hate the news or the ones who report it or both because that gets people to respond. Anger is the new commodity with journalism rather than integrity.

Most of what you see on the internet news these days don't require you have sources. In fact, most are "an anonymous person in camp." This obviously attempts to shake up the regime of whatever it is you're trying to unseat, but also drive each other nuts with paranoia. What we have now is called "fake news" which is an ingenuous title, because you can either fabricate news or distort it for your agenda. Agenda news is putting Donald Trump's face on a story about a pedophile sex offender for no reason (yes, people...this actually happened). Does the media have to retract? Probably not. Because "an unnamed source."

The saddest part is that the press do hide under the badge of honesty. Or transparency. The problem, most understand what gets eyeballs to their writing. It's salacious titles with some juicy bits of news to get you angry enough to respond. And hating Trump now is the hot button.

Both CNN and Fox are awful. Strangely enough Fox is less awful. According to the snippets I see online. CNN has headlines an angry child would write (from the snippets I see online). Fox, also, but they also put on an opposing view. Perhaps a paper tiger? Guess who does have more viewership? The one that angers you more. So more Leftist will tune in to Fox just to get angry. And, well...the Right are so close-minded even saying CNN gives them AIDS.

Personally, I think American news probably sends a message of hopelessness to the rest of the world (if they tuned in). I think the violence, anger and bitterness between one another stems from what we see (not necessarily what we hear). We get desensitized to a car that goes through an apartment complex and kills four watching t.v. The next day news moves onto the next tragedy. I don't fault them as life DOES move on. But man, life moved on really quick. Which makes it seem that we're all disposable. Which isn't wrong, but pretty callous.

I get better news from the people. Blogs out there that have insight into the world. I try to keep the violence one does to one another at bay. I know this is somewhat naive as it doesn't prepare oneself for the realities once it enters your life (which is does, in the big city on a daily basis).
But I hope more and more people tune out. These people are profiting off your misery.