Not only has this Michael Jackson Mania spread through the ionosphere to engulf everything in its path, but it has now strained the space/time continuum. It has been two weeks since he has died and we are still being barraged by the so called news media with "Breaking News". Here's some "Breaking News" for the newscasters; when a story is four hours old or so, never mind two weeks old, it is not breaking anything anymore, except breaking wind.
Today, July 6, 2009, The CBS Evening News three teasers and lead stories were all about Michael Jackson. This on a day that for the first time in 6 years a U.S. President visited, in Russia, the Russian President to talk, no less, about a Nuclear Arms curtailment. I guess that and the latest unrest in Honduras, and the crack-downs in China, are really not news worthy. After all Michael Jackson effects my life, more than any of those events ever will, right?
Adding onto the pile of Jacksonian over embellishment is, none other than accuweather.com, which has a link to "The Latest Weather for Michael Jackson Memorial". As if the event is so big that it is now deserving of its own forecast. Are they suggesting the weather for this event will be different than the weather for the city it will be held in, which, by the way, is LA. And if you have ever lived in LA you know the weather there in the summer is pretty much the same everyday, so no forecast needed. (See "LA Story")
The loss of true TV journalism for the masses (I am excluding PBS's newscast, which covered these other stories first and foremost) is but one example of how this nation will wind up with what it deserves. An uninformed nation is destined for ruin. We are a nation of idolizers who don't really care about national or world events that truly impact our lives. So when our politicians, bureaucrats, corporations and health care system continue to fail, we will have nobody to blain but ourselves.
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