What a country! What a free press! It's so hilarious that it's other "journalists" who seem to have woken up to discover that Matt Lauer isn't, as he's billed, a "journalist" he only gets paid $20 million plus to play one on TV. Apparently a lot of the "journalists" were under the impression that Matt was one of them. I guess since it wasn't reported that he wasn't, that was news to them.
Perhaps not nearly as important but my second favorite thing of the week was when it was left to Mike Barnicle, no make that MIKE BARNICLE!!! to unmask the libertarian candidate Gary Johnson as an ignoramus who didn't know what "Aleppo" signifies. Now, I will not claim to have ever had anything like an ounce of respect for Mike Barnicle in the decades I used to read, then ignore his racist, sexist, elitist's idea of Everyman side-panel column on the B section of the Boston Globe but, really, that's left to him to expose. I mean, Gary Johnson has gotten serious press coverage as THE breakthrough libertarian candidate for president of the United States, you'd think someone of the legitimate media would have discovered that. Apparently those madcap libertarians who opposed him as " a Republican who smokes pot " were on to something.
I can't remember where I read it but apparently The Dowdy Drab, the New York Times got Aleppo wrong too, someone there thinking it was the capital of Syria and no one noticing the gaff.
The American media is the problem and something really will have to be done about it if we're ever to have the vestiges of a democracy survive. And I do mean forcing them to stop lying and distracting The People from important business. For a start I'd make the corporations, broadcast, cable, direct television, devote a serious amount of their resources and schedule in factual reporting as a requirement for doing business in the United States. Democracy, it turns out, can't be left to just happen, it has to be cultivated. The schools can't be depended on to do that, media is the real school and continuing mis-education of the American people. The "founders" didn't know anything like that, they couldn't anticipate the problems with their assumptions, we don't have the luxury of that excuse. We've seen that a corrupt media can corrupt a country and turn democracy into fascism.
"Matt Lauer Is Just The Tip Of The Media Cess Pool "
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