I’m fed up with the news media’s constant efforts to pester and cajole politicians into making
outrageous statements and then drag them over the coals for it. Does it really matter that Steven “Herman the Munster” Harper can’t say I love you? It may take little skill and a lotta hard work on reporter’s part, but we could all be better informed and maybe attract a better bunch of candidates to the podium, if they’d stop relying on gotcha journalism.
And, if that weren’t enough, when they’re not doing that, the news media seems to rely on news that is spoon-fed to them. Be it a thinly disguised product promotion or a staged political news conference - that trash is for chumps. Who gives a crap how good they say it is or how great they are? What we do need to know is whether or not they measure up. We need the thorough investigative, interest driven, reporting that suppose to be keeping the whole cruddy system in check. Instead, they give us lots of advertising, and we end up with bad actors for leaders and a bunch of wonky shite.
outrageous statements and then drag them over the coals for it. Does it really matter that Steven “Herman the Munster” Harper can’t say I love you? It may take little skill and a lotta hard work on reporter’s part, but we could all be better informed and maybe attract a better bunch of candidates to the podium, if they’d stop relying on gotcha journalism.And, if that weren’t enough, when they’re not doing that, the news media seems to rely on news that is spoon-fed to them. Be it a thinly disguised product promotion or a staged political news conference - that trash is for chumps. Who gives a crap how good they say it is or how great they are? What we do need to know is whether or not they measure up. We need the thorough investigative, interest driven, reporting that suppose to be keeping the whole cruddy system in check. Instead, they give us lots of advertising, and we end up with bad actors for leaders and a bunch of wonky shite.
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