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Originally Posted by BiGWiLL
lol that sounds better. I cant even watch CNN anymore because they freak so much. You can see the relief in the media. When the oil prices go down for a couple of days. They can breath better. I give up I used to be a news junkie lol.
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Journalism is a dying profession. It's like a blacksmith in 1915 claiming that the world is ending because of the Model T. Well, maybe for HIM it is, because the Model T just made his job obsolete. Well, the blogosphere is like a Model T, and the professional journalists are very very well paid-maybe even overpaid-blacksmiths and buggy makers. One thing they're not is stupid, they can see the writing on the wall. They know that the days of the $20 million a year news anchor are vanishing forever.
They don't want to retrain, so they're desperately trying to prove that they're still worthy. It's similar to the wealthy buggy maker sponsoring the mayoral candidate who promises to outlaw cars. If they can convince people that the world is ending because of all the newfangled Tin Lizzies running around, they stand a better chance of saving their jobs. Ultimately, it's shortsighted, since the world will spin on whether the mayor outlaws Model T's or not.
They're trying to win by fear, which is all that anybody seems to offer in the US anymore, the world will end if we don't get our way BOO! In an earlier day, people were smart enough not to be swayed by raw fear. People today are not. All we hear is fear and more fear on the theory that saying it enough times makes it true. The fear is really on the part of those being left behind by progress, which is why the media is suddenly trying to convince us that Luddism is all the rage.
