By Dan Hagen
Wanted: New panic to fill immediate position.
Ideal candidate will be trumped-up, distracting, alarmist, jingoistic and fundamentally speculative. Apply with references to CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.
It may have come to your attention, good citizen, that news is no longer about verified, objective facts that happened in the immediate past. It's about speculative, agenda-driven fantasies that most likely won’t happen in the immediate or distant future.
For example, why is the corporate news media always full of meaningless, hypocritical “demands” made by people who can’t enforce them and never expect to? Don't we have more relevant topics to discuss, such as how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Fact-free fatuousness is peppy and cheap, and those are two things that the corporate media like. The gasbaggery provided by amoral airheads like Chris Matthews is also a deliberate way to burn up the media oxygen so that little ACTUAL news is covered. Real news incommodes corporations.
Having abandoned their real, professional journalistic watchdogs by the side of the road, Americans can now be counted upon to howl in petulant indignation as they overtaken, without warning, by a string of disasters and criminal usurpations of power.
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