What shocks me about recent events is the country is actually tolerating this crap from the conservatives. The birthers movement, the accusations that Obama is not a christian, the accusations that Obama was born in Kenya, the blatant mischaracterization of Obama's health care reform plans, the editing of the video of Obama's grandmother making her to sound like she said Obama is a Kenyan citizen, etc. are all very disturbing to me.
They may be disturbing to you but they make for great news stories. It's a business. They are in the business of selling advertisment. They
must put garbage like that on TV because the news stations have to compete with outragiously extreme shit like "The Real Houswives of Orange County" and crap that follows that same shock value.
How boring would the news be if they just told you the news without all this shockingly opinionated stuff? Nobody would tune in and they'd lose money. So what do they care, put all the crazy shit on the news so people will watch.. it was the same as morning radio. No one gave a shit about morning radio til Howard Stern changed the formate of how it was done. Same with the news. Crap sells, that's all they care about.
- Oni
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