Sinking ships like CBS News won't be saved with right wing new anchors like Katie Couric
Perhaps Couric's ratings are also hurt by her years of on-air, breathless, gushing, barely restrained worshipful adoration in the presence of any and all powerful republikkkan males, but most especially the sociopathic skanks who make up the Bush family.
While I'm sure it is true young and single do not consume as much "news" information as middle aged and old, I suspect it is at least in part because the young view the news as so dishonest as to be irrelevant.
IF the Iraq war had been honestly reported from its inception by any of the TV news outlets, my guess is the 18 to 29 year olds inclined to be politically active would have tuned in. But had it been honestly reported the invasion and occupation would not have occurred and the billions of dollars made by Lockheed, Halliburton, Exxon, Bechtel, Rupert Murdoch, etc., would not have been made.
Sadly, like every other age group in the so called republic only a small percentage of the young are inclined to pay attention to politics. Such is the depressing story of America, a place where the most electorate can't be bothered and sits sighing on its collective ass while the moron in the White House, with his coterie of cuckoos, whittles away civil rights and liberties for Americans daily, all the while cavorting with the likes of closet case preacher Ted Haggard and Blob From Outer Space Kkkarl Rove.
If Couric and her counterparts actually asked questions, actually elucidated what the government is doing, or even made it clear to the youth that they will be far less wealthy and privileged than generations of Americans who came before them, and as a result of Bush and other right wing policy, maybe the youth would have tuned in along with a lot of other people who avoid TV news because they know it is deceitful, biased, pro-corporate and edits out information that the owners that be just don't want the public to know.
Perhaps if TV ever got around to reporting the real stories a larger percentage of the public would become politically energized and FIGHT back.
But how very hard for TV news to do this when it is interlocked with government and government policy, owned by the same short sighted, greed driven billionaires and millionaires who make up Bush's ownership society.
When the military contractors who profit from Bush's bad decisions for the country also own the content of the TV a partisan hack like Couric is to be expected. But we don't have to watch regardless of the millions they pay her to obfuscate the facts.
While I'm sure it is true young and single do not consume as much "news" information as middle aged and old, I suspect it is at least in part because the young view the news as so dishonest as to be irrelevant.
IF the Iraq war had been honestly reported from its inception by any of the TV news outlets, my guess is the 18 to 29 year olds inclined to be politically active would have tuned in. But had it been honestly reported the invasion and occupation would not have occurred and the billions of dollars made by Lockheed, Halliburton, Exxon, Bechtel, Rupert Murdoch, etc., would not have been made.
Sadly, like every other age group in the so called republic only a small percentage of the young are inclined to pay attention to politics. Such is the depressing story of America, a place where the most electorate can't be bothered and sits sighing on its collective ass while the moron in the White House, with his coterie of cuckoos, whittles away civil rights and liberties for Americans daily, all the while cavorting with the likes of closet case preacher Ted Haggard and Blob From Outer Space Kkkarl Rove.
If Couric and her counterparts actually asked questions, actually elucidated what the government is doing, or even made it clear to the youth that they will be far less wealthy and privileged than generations of Americans who came before them, and as a result of Bush and other right wing policy, maybe the youth would have tuned in along with a lot of other people who avoid TV news because they know it is deceitful, biased, pro-corporate and edits out information that the owners that be just don't want the public to know.
Perhaps if TV ever got around to reporting the real stories a larger percentage of the public would become politically energized and FIGHT back.
But how very hard for TV news to do this when it is interlocked with government and government policy, owned by the same short sighted, greed driven billionaires and millionaires who make up Bush's ownership society.
When the military contractors who profit from Bush's bad decisions for the country also own the content of the TV a partisan hack like Couric is to be expected. But we don't have to watch regardless of the millions they pay her to obfuscate the facts.
posted by TheFuriousGourmet | 6:11 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home