What Does the News Teach Us?
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As I’m leaving for work the other day, I am once again exposed to Fox (Faux) News local by my wife, who, for some strange reason, watches it every morning. She likes the local content. I don’t like that the alleged news is nothing more than commercials for shows like Americans Idle and sports is always top news. Very little in the way of actual content.
One story stood out: In a city park, a jogger (because it’s always a jogger that finds the good stuff) found the unconscious form of a fourteen year old female, clad only in her underwear. The talking head stated that the “victim was cooperating with the investigation”.
Cooperating with the investigation?
Found unconscious in only her underwear and she’s cooperating with the investigation.
I’m not a rocket scientist but the folks who are even less aware are watching Faux News, hearing the phrase “cooperating with the investigation” and being programmed to cooperate with Authority.
Is it becoming clear yet?
7 Comments
the oracle
April 4th, 2009
at 5:38pm
They’re playing to the base audience. Stupidity is contagious.
leftystrat
April 4th, 2009
at 7:04pm
I know who they’re playing to but it sounds like programming to me.
zenium
April 4th, 2009
at 10:13pm
Sounds like programming to me, too. Maybe we can add the Chinese style of emphasizing “Leniency to those that confess”
Buffet
April 5th, 2009
at 6:16am
I never watch the inane babblings everyone calls ‘the news’. Most eminent writers/speakers in the field of motivation/sucess recommend abstaining from it. Wonder why………?
leftystrat
April 5th, 2009
at 9:49am
zenium: are we going to have to break out the the comfy chair?
Buffet: most talking heads recommend abstaining from motivational speakers so that could cause a problem. But I agree regardless.
the oracle
April 5th, 2009
at 6:55pm
As long as the comfy chairs are out, anyone for a showing of the original ‘Manchurian Candidate’? Programming at its finest.
leftystrat
April 5th, 2009
at 9:18pm
Absolutely, but programming of a different sort. There’s downright physical abuse (Manchurian) and there’s the more subtle kind (news).