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Runaway Bride |
| Message Name: |
idiot culture |
| Date Posted: |
05/01/2005 |
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you've figured it out.
i have been working in this country, at the number one cable news channel, for the last five years.
and now, i'm heading back to canada.
if you want to understand what makes this superficial country tick -- and if you want to track it's collapse into a superficial pile of irrelevancy --- you need to work in tv news, watch cable tv news .. and monitor the thoughts and priorities about tv news through this board and others like it.
two words: Who cares ? feckless brides, random murderers, missing persons ..
random crimes and misdemeanours. and you waste time and energy covering it, talking about it, and analyzing it.
all the while:
substantial, cataclysmic treasonous assaults are taking place on life and liberty ... and it's all too much trouble (or having too little ratings payoff) to bother with ... or explain.
good luck. come see me in toronto sometime.
i'm astounded, now i'm out.
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| Message: |
Carl Bernstein recently referred to it as the "idiot culture". Anyone who is comfortable with where the country's priorities are deserves to wallow in the atmosphere. The rest of us find it poisonous.
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