Biggest problem with ‘the media’ is not bias — it’s laziness
Posted on April 28, 2008 - Filed Under National News | Leave a Comment
We live in a “sound-bite” world, so when the media give us sound bites for our daily information diet, we shouldn’t be shocked or surprised. Nor should we accuse “the media” of having a liberal or conservative bias.
Trust me as someone who worked in the media before it started sliding so radically downhill: The media [...]
How do you take your ‘news’? It’s CNN or ‘The Daily Show’ for me
Posted on April 25, 2008 - Filed Under National News | Leave a Comment
If you’re like me, and many people are, you’ve heard absolutely a million times more than you really need to hear about Barak Obama and Hillary Clinton — or Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama, if that matters to you.
I turned on a rerun of “The Daily Show” awhile ago and host Jon Stewart voiced exactly [...]
Which is worse — television commercials or political campaigns?
Posted on April 23, 2008 - Filed Under Entertainment News, Lifestyle News | Leave a Comment
I have to confess that television commercials and political campaigns are combining to really wear me down. I totally understand people who shut off their TVs and abandon them forever.
I was watching (ha, not ME though?) one of the late-night network talk shows last night and saw part of an interview with the actress Helen [...]
