Since the last election, I took a break from blogging. I was disappointed with the results and I was burned out from work. So when I started thinking about blogging again, it happened to coincide with the most embarrassing week in journalism history. Between Anna Nicole Smith and Britney Spears, TV news has demonstrated what a joke it is. I know there are people who are interested in the celebrity crap; that's why supermarket tabloids exist.
On the eve of what could potentially be another world war, Fox News, CNN, and the rest can't stop with the lazy news crap. Really, how hard is it to show clips of Anna Nicole Smith or Britney Spears and gleefully voice over their personal tragedies? Like the coverage of Lisa Nowak's apparent break-down, the news is full of little puns and titles that make light of these situations. It's not news, it's not funny, and it's getting old. I really don't have sympathy for whiny celebs as they live extravagantly wild lives that would cause most normal people to be shunned. However, these are personal tragedies for the above mentioned and the news is more than happy to exploit.
Continuing to ride the lazy news bandwagon, the political press is following the potential presidential candidates around and editing sound bites together and calling it a story. There is no substance and no context to any of it. In fact, it's only February 2007 and the coverage already dominates the headlines.
Meanwhile, bloggers and other online writers are actually doing investigations into Barak Obama's background as well as compiling previous Hillary Clinton quotes to show how she apparently lies and triangulates on the same level as her husband. This is in direct contrast with the major media outlets that report what these people say as fact.
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