Saturday, May 13, 2023

Bedtime Stories

“I was in the DeSantis camp,” explained businessman Andrew Sabin, "But he started opening his mouth..."

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Were they expecting a Trump wannabe who was more acceptable to the deplorables (f/k/a the GOP "base") but who would still talk like Mitt Romney?

(Yes, I cut off that quote; but the end doesn't improve the sentiment of what I included: "and a lot of big donors said his views aren’t tolerable.”)

And to all the people who whined that CNN "damaged democracy," what did you fucking expect?

I remember the days of Uncle Walter and Harry Reasoner and Huntley/Brinkley all bringing us basically the same news, only the anchors differed (slightly; they were all older white men). It wasn't 24 hours news, but that's where the trouble started, with Ted Turner and his CNN. Gotta do something to fill those idle hours. FoxNews does it by not running news programs 24/7. MSNBC followed suit, by never running news programs. Fox used to have "hard news," but they got rid of all that. And now people are surprised cable news is not news and not "good for democracy"?

What, and you think Twitter was before Elmo got hold of it?  Grow up.  And remember Deep Throat's advice to Woodward:  "Follow the money."  That is all you know, and all you need to know.  At least with regard to American politics and cable TV.

The news on the big three broadcast channels was basically a public service, paid for by the sitcoms and cops 'n' robbers dramas.  When news became a seperate business concern is a pretty good place to identify when our troubles started. Go back to "Network": the base sin of Faye Dunaway's character was trying to make news a profit center, rather than a loss leader. There some of our troubles started. 

Not that the news wasn't biased then, too.  There is, indeed, nothing new under the sun. And there is no one going to save us.  This is a democracy, not a children's story.
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