bobbyw24
06-03-2010, 04:33 AM
I was watching one of those vacuous cable shows this last weekend, the kind the media foist on the populace as cutting-edge informative journalism. You know them: everyone on the panel carefully reflective and poised, silly close-up grins at the introduction, panelists projecting those rehearsed almost constipated expressions that are meant to convince viewers that they are not really constipated, but deeply concerned. And the interaction is always accompanied with mild, challenging, but polite debate; followed by gratuitous moments of spontaneous levity, usually initiated by the host to ease the seriousness of the segment’s world-shattering discourse. And all of this is carefully choreographed in the studio: images of D.C.’s monuments floating and flying dramatically across the screen in sparkling 3D, while pulsating news-sounding music echoes the start or finish of each segment, providing a necessary cue for viewers and panelists alike to answer nature’s call or grab a snack before the next “riveting” sequence resumes.
And every segment deals only with the most current issue: video of God’s oil pouring out of God’s seabed, the accompanying questions of how could any tragedy (man made or otherwise) ever occur in this world, how to prevent any others from ever occurring again, how soon can everything be just as it was before, and can we find a way to blame Bush, and if not Bush, then an oil company; photos of Obama finally at the beach, fingering sandy oil balls with green resolve etched for the cameras on his forehead; this followed by a longer segment than necessary on some Hollywood human miscreant, recently passed away unexpectedly, with the required recap of all of his tortured, meaningless, gory, profane-laced movies to which we should all reflexively genuflect. The moderator afterwards stoically reminds the viewers how “we” will all miss the deceased for his unique drug-plagued contribution to the arts and to the bettering of our human condition! (No mention, however, is ever made of soldiers who died fighting for our country that week; but, hey, our glitz and glamour heroes and heroines must never be forgotten!)
And so on goes the predictable media template: the news hour’s panel sound bites never reaching any consensus of wisdom, prognostications prognosticated, and every panel member expert, as well as the moderator, hawking their new books, each soon to be number one on the New York Times Bestseller List. Get your copy now!
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/06/02/it%e2%80%99s-the-constitution-stupid/#ixzz0pmjf9NfV
And every segment deals only with the most current issue: video of God’s oil pouring out of God’s seabed, the accompanying questions of how could any tragedy (man made or otherwise) ever occur in this world, how to prevent any others from ever occurring again, how soon can everything be just as it was before, and can we find a way to blame Bush, and if not Bush, then an oil company; photos of Obama finally at the beach, fingering sandy oil balls with green resolve etched for the cameras on his forehead; this followed by a longer segment than necessary on some Hollywood human miscreant, recently passed away unexpectedly, with the required recap of all of his tortured, meaningless, gory, profane-laced movies to which we should all reflexively genuflect. The moderator afterwards stoically reminds the viewers how “we” will all miss the deceased for his unique drug-plagued contribution to the arts and to the bettering of our human condition! (No mention, however, is ever made of soldiers who died fighting for our country that week; but, hey, our glitz and glamour heroes and heroines must never be forgotten!)
And so on goes the predictable media template: the news hour’s panel sound bites never reaching any consensus of wisdom, prognostications prognosticated, and every panel member expert, as well as the moderator, hawking their new books, each soon to be number one on the New York Times Bestseller List. Get your copy now!
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2010/06/02/it%e2%80%99s-the-constitution-stupid/#ixzz0pmjf9NfV