The Media Shuffle

The 'media shuffle' is a dance created by Capital Hill designed to defer the media to sex, text and money while the big news is ignored. Every time a Breaking News sign appears on the screen we are assaulted with never ending media investigations of the ridiculous and the meaningless. What is being hidden as the real news slips through the fingers of our 'investigative heroes'? As media focus and report on the private lives of individuals just what shenanigans are we missing on Capital Hill and what is going on in the World? Does anyone care?

Call me crazy but the fight for democracy and the ouster of despots, peoples rebellions and 'crimes against humanity' are worthy of media attention. America has spent at least 10 years and trillions of dollars in quagmire wars in the Middle East in bloody attempts to bomb democracy into the populations. Now that the people have taken to the streets and have taken up arms against their oppressors the media and America ignore the fight for freedom. There is growing unrest throughout the region and people are fighting for their lives against their own governments and the media spends about 20 minutes total in coverage a day. Yet, a Congressman caught texting sex stuff dominates media coverage to the point of nausea.

Is it because the media is no longer the guardian of the free press or has the media relinquished its mandate to monitor government? Maybe the level of intelligence in America has sunk so low only sex, money and scandal can captivate the people long enough so they don't change the channel. Would someone explain why Al Jazeera is able to provide wall to wall live coverage of the region and still provides full coverage of other topics. Is it because America now only has a one track mind influenced by, designed by, monitored by and controlled by the US government and the media? If we are ignorant of what is going on - it won't happen here - or is it that the ability to concentrate has been programmed out of us by the government and its partner, the media?

It is time the media chose another dance partner because some of us still think world events are more important than the sexual behaviours of individual Americans.