This political season cannot end soon enough.
I'm tired of people pointing their fingers at whomever the opposer of their candidate is and screaming in accurate information and accusations. At first, no matter which side it came from, I tried to do a little research, provide the link to some solid information, and viola! Problem solved...
Well, we both know the problem solved part is a load of horseshit.
People are going to believe what they want to believe. They're going to skew statistics, speculate with information, and align the facts to their perspective.
I've accepted that.
Okay. That's a lie. It's secretly driving me loonie!
Huh. Well. I guess it's not a secret anymore.
In the age of instant media, it is incredibly difficult, near impossible, to fact check every piece of information that is reported from the, now, millions of different news outlets. The Internet has opened up a vast arena for anyone and everyone to report whatever it is they deem news.
You have liberal sites, conservative sites, patriot sites, gossip sites, more liberal sites, more conservative sites, militant sites, I could go on for pages!
They all skew the news to suit their particular agenda with absolutely no one to keep them in check. There's always a lot of finger pointing:
"So and so said this."
"No, So and so did NOT say this."
"So and so ate an elephant with a spoon."
"No one saw So and so eating an elephant with a spoon."
et cetera...et cetera....et cetera...
Back when I was much much much younger, there were three major television broadcast companies. ABC, NBC, and CBS (FOX came along a bit later). There was no reason for one-upmanship other than to report more details so the viewers watched your new program.
Don't get me wrong, there was still fear mongering because you could get much less of the story at a time and when you did get it, it was probably a couple of days old in some cases.
No twenty-four hour news channels who feed their anchors entertainment most of the time rather than facts. Entertainment sells. The days of Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw, and Walter Cronkite are slowly inching away in the rear-view mirror.
If you don't know who Walter Cronkite was, look it up.
We're exchanging it for overly made-up, oddly dressed, and decidedly intellectually inferior faces who are being fed their stories and having arguments with their guests.
Nobody seems to care!
Instant gratification societal demands are dumbing us down and making us slaves to our computers, phones, and televisions. And not the good kind of slave that comes with a much needed spanking at the end of the day.
Do yourself a favor. Have your opinions. Find your own facts. Remember eighty percent of what you read is bullshit. Make your own decisions.
~Kim
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