Quote Originally Posted by george7 View Post
That's not even counting the Politicians.

I don't think that there's more death these days, I think the cameras are just pointed over there.

Anybody connected with the media? Could we point some cameras at kittens in trees?
Only on "slow news" Sundays... Let's face it. With the globalization of the television industry, "The News" has become another form of televised entertainment, with the result that it has surrendered its objectivity in order to build ratings and hold on to viewers for what ever program follows it. In depth reporting rarely has any depth at all, largely due to the television practice of hiring actors to report what's going on in the world around us.

Television, globally, has declined over the past forty years to the point that it has become an electronic side show, designed to hold the attention span of those lacking the ability to amuse -- or inform -- themselves. It has become an addictive palliative for the simple minded majority of our society.

Marx, writing in the 1860s, said that religion was the opiate of the masses. Today that opiate is television.