Back in 1998, I wrote a book which was published and was called The Year 2000 Hoax. This was in answer to the fear mongering by people who had no idea what they were talking about. The economy of the world was going to collapse, planes will crash, you won’t be able to get your money out of the bank, and so on. It was a circle-jerk of a bunch of know-nothings reinforcing each other’s nutty claims. The media picked up on it and made it a cause celebre. Congress jumped on it for the same reason. The techies knew better but didn’t complain because it was good business. The media loved it because it was news in a ratings sort of way. Instead of researching it, they went along with the fear mongering which persisted until the millennium when people woke up and found the world was still there. ATMs worked and they could still get their money, planes were flying. In short, the whole thing was monumental bullshit. I debated the fear mongers before and was interviewed afterward and asked how come I knew. I was a computer techie and knew what I was talking about. So did most every other techie. But the media didn’t want to hear from us. We were bad business.
A similar thing has happened with the Trump mongering. The media created him and he cleverly used their greed to get himself to the top of the republican polls. It didn’t help that the republican competition was so lackluster that this asshole stood out. But, instead of taking him to task, he was good business, high ratings etc. No matter what shit came out of his mouth, the media publicized it, for hours and hours. And they are still doing it. You can’t give hours and hours of free coverage to someone and wonder why no one else is really challenging him. I have stopped following the presidential race because the coverage is so biased, not in favor of any party or person but biased in favor of ratings and money.
I am not interested in what the talking heads are saying. They are saying only what is self-serving. One only had to see the debates to realize that each “journalist” was only interested in his or her own personal ambition, not to do the service they were given a microphone for.
News is important to a free society. So when will we get some?
