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Edited on Thu Mar-27-08 09:43 AM by Sander
I am trying to listen to Sen. Obama's speech in New York this morning on the economy. I first tune into CNN and listen to his points very carefully. Then, about ten minutes after the hour, the CNN host breaks in with a summary of what she thinks he has said and then moves on to more video of Rev. Wright's speech.
So, cursing under my breath, I tune to MSNBC. Ahhhh, great, they still have the Senator's address on live. A minute later, then also tune away to a commentator telling us that McCain has already responded with a 30 second sound bite to the speech (before it is even over) saying that it is just more liberal tax-and-spend verbage. The host then starts showing more of Rev. Wright clips.
So the media are apparently convinced that the American people are too stupid to follow important economic policy details and would rather listen to salacious and inflammatory rhetoric. No wonder the American people have become so blinded to political realities. The media has trained us to think anything more than a few minutes on any one topic is beyond our ken.
The media today has abrogated their responsibility to keep us informed. Ben Franklin and the other founding fathers must be turning over in their graves.
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