Media Distraction

The military routinely uses “counter-measures” to keep missiles from hitting their targets. The media routinely uses unnecessary news to distract readers from what is really going on.

The Left Wing media spews left wing propaganda. The worst is MSNBC, with 2.6 million socialist viewers, followed by CNN and then all the rest.  Programming is pure fiction and innuendo.

The Right Wing media is limited to Fox News, Fox Business News to challenge the Left Wing narrative. Hannity and Lou Dobbs are consistently pro-Trump. Fox Business News is usually void of irrelevant information and presents logical conclusions.

The media spends very little time and space to report the news we actually need to know. I look for facts that are too often omitted or glossed over by newspapers and cable TV news. So, I head for the internet to google the facts. I do find more relevant facts reported by Stuart Varney on Fox Business News and Bloomberg, despite the fact that Bloomberg also slants to the Left. Fox News does cover facts, but it also spends too much time on “conjecture”.

The media focuses too much time and space on “conjecture”.  Most “news” reporting is a “soap opera”. It’s full of “he said, she said” and we are expected to immerse ourselves in gossip and propaganda. Cable TV news is attempting to replace the novel. Viewers are expected to enjoy the story.

TV talking heads are forever asking guests what they think about the latest gossip or event. They talk in circles and avoid conclusions, especially if the conclusions are obvious.

The media over-reports emotional events and disasters in order to elicit emotional responses from their audiences. The McCain funeral-athon took a week. All hurricanes take a full week or more. Trump’s arrivals and departures are covered. The Russia Collusion hoax has been covered for 18 months straight, but Bills going through the Congress are never covered. This over-coverage is not new. The space program reports in the 1970s went on for weeks.

While the media is over-covering strategically contrived uninteresting events, I wonder what more relevant news could be covered. I suspect there is a political narrative at work with all media coverage.

Every 30 minutes, we get to watch 3 minutes of ads. There are 6, 30 second ads in these ad-fests. These are mostly products people don’t need or shouldn’t buy. The medical ads are the worst. These are pills for rare medical conditions that have toxic side-effects and obscure medical devices.

At the end of the day, the media has “filled the time” to fulfill their programming charter to justify their advertising revenue.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader