I sympathize ..... I find I am getting very jaded and cynical, listening to the news. The
"ink-stained hyenas" of the press and the electronic media moguls manufacture false premises, offer ridiculous speculations, and twist facts, and it goes on and on.
I don't mind it when the author is clearly a editorialist or an analyst but even the
"straight" news people are involved.
I didn't see all of the memorial service Wednesday. What I did see led me to believe that it wasn't Obama who turned the memorial into a "pep" rally, and he acted a bit chagrined at the atmosphere that prevailed -- though he did nothing to ameliorate it. This was a college campus and it was the atmosphere of the newly anointed
"inteligentsia" that prevailed -- in other words, whacky college kids.
I don't know what to do about it. For the most part I get my news from Fox, which has it's faults but seems better than most other cable channels, and certainly better than the major over-the-air networks.
I pretty much stay away from newpapers (except comics). I try to keep myself abreast of the news because I don't like to be ignorant of what is going on in the world ... but I have to balance it against what gives me high blood pressure and migraines.
A friend of mine who studied media in college (and works in the field) blames the modern media on "pro-active" reporting that, according to him, began in the 1960s. Basically, it evolved when the media opened up to enthusiastic college grads who "wanted to change the world." That isn't the job of a reporter, whose basic job is .... "reporting." You know, "just the facts, Ma'am," as Jack Webb would have put it in
DRAGNET.
I wouldn't throw in the towel. I might try to limit exposure to media that drives up the blood pressure.
My standard response to problems brought on by an evil, unfair, slanted world ....
"buy more ammo." Problem is, I can't seem to shoot it off fast enough. It's collecting.