Bill Maher, albeit a bit foul for my taste, nailed it about the Brian Williams of the world. About what the media has become.
http://deadline.com/2015/02/brian-williams-bill-maher-nbc-news-suspended-video-1201373648/
Growing up during Watergate where journalists worked hard to tell the real story, I thought would set the standard for reporting. It has gone down hill mostly since then. Williams is doing what so many in his position do. So do the actors peddling products they would never use, or former senators selling reverse mortgages, the list goes on. They sell out! Lie! I think it should be a criminal offense to knowingly distort news. It is not.
It is an endless blah, blah, blah for the most part. If it bleeds, it leads. It covers the trivia, the trite, the not important quagmire that clogs the average dull brain. It picks and chooses what is important not what happens. It doesn't tell the whole story.
I want journalists to ask all the questions. Don't do a superficial job. Learn the trade and do it well. Don't leave me hanging or I will leave your newspaper, or television station if I haven't already. And, no, I don't want sensationalism. Let's leave that to the people who read with their lips moving.
This writer loves a good human interest story. Some of my favorite ones could be found in the Wall Street Journal. I want to read a story that tugs at my heartstrings. Not some saccharine-laced one, but one with all the elements. A situation we know or don't know because we've been too blocked following the nonsense media to care. I want it to take me to another level, much like a good book or film does. Something that makes me a better person.
I am tired of scapegoat journalism. Tired of the senior management media types that ignore or control what is happening at the news desk. I am tired of corporate ownership. And, I want you to take a stand about wrongdoings.
Better yet, I'll take a walk where everything I experience is real and truly matters.
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