I try to keep out of politics and political conversations. My mom and dad taught me that there were three things you did not discuss with friends: politics, religion and sex. We all know that guys discuss the latter, as do women. I have few views on religion, and keep my politics close to my vest. I like to listen to the pundits and really watch what I say.
I find all of them, both progressive (read here Liberal and Democrat) and conservative (ditto,Republican and the right) to all have an agenda and all the comments are meant to be one big debate. A bunch of nerds discussing philosophy and trying to tie it all to reality. We are actually listening to people that we would ignore in high school because of the tape on their glasses and pocket protector for their pens. But now, because they have a microphone and talk REAL LOUD ON RADIO and have the wherewithal to demean anyone who disagrees with them, we listen and raise their ideas to position of having more meaning than our on thoughts.
Talk about Global Warming! If we could turn all the radio stations, AM and FM to music then we would be better off. TV should show just reruns of Andy Griffith or NCIS, and our heroes could be Andy, Barney, Aunt Bea, Opie, Gibbs, McGee, Abby, Diva and Tony as well as Ducky. We could all banter endlessly about nothing and remain oblivious to the world while solving intricate problems within an hour. And our problems would all make us laugh or at least give us a Gibbsian smirk.
Many of our radio "experts" have little background in their topic and really have no better grasp of what is going on than the rest of us. What they do have is people who research their side and feed them info through little headsets that they can use. Those people are not guarding the president with those things in their ears, believe me.
My proposal is simple. For one month, we do away with all broadcasting and telecasting. Limit newspapers to what is happening within a 100 mile radius of their home base. All other news must come to us through word of mouth. If it does, then we should surely get the truth. Stories will be repeated over and over; and surely no one will add or delete important information that we need to be informed. No one will exaggerate or falsify ideas or stats to enhance their story.
Then we will finally get the true story of what happened to Tiger.
Doughnut
Great idea, mainly because it is already happening. If you call today's news stations and radio stations as a way of telecommunications and getting any half-way important information out into the public then you are in for a rude awakening. More than half of the college students I interact with (if not all) are oblivious to anything that doesn't have to do with Pop Culture. They watch worthless shows on television and hang out on facebook for a living. If they aren't mindlessly wasting their life, they sure as hell aren't trying to seek out useful information. A sad generation is what I grow up in, sometimes i wish that i was born earlier, but then again, I like my computer!
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