Who is more important... Taylor Swift and Blake Lively, or Israel and Iran??
The true answer is none of the above.
In terms of endangerment to life -of course, the residents of Israel and Iran can appreciate how
they have priority to the word 'importance' rather than a couple of wealthy troubadours struggling
to understand where their yearning for footlight-veneration ends.
It's really all about content. Those established conveyors of what we call 'daily news' have -not only
self-elevated themselves into the stratum of celebutante and dragged the viewers/listeners' interests
of what they wish to indulge themselves with, but have also left behind a reality that the majority of
people exist in day-to day simply because they've decided it's not interesting enough.
True, a school-appointed road-crossing guard who's been warned about giving high-fives to kids
passing on his/her location may get a mention, but the regular quest of keeping their customers
in either camp of emotive exasperation is always there, even in what the media used to call a
'Man-Bites-Dog' story.
There was a time when most outlets left the tribulations of what Frank Sinatra and latest squeeze
were going through to the more-Hollywood-orientated magazines, but now with a well-financed
system of talking-heads/influencer agencies and infotainment being easier to generate without
leaving one's desk, celebrity-trivia now sits beside earthquakes and moon-landings
Hence, what some say is 'dumbing-down' now can be no longer recognised.
Let's be truthful, the politics that's offered to the everyday consumer of news isn't real. The actual
policy-makers are not displayed or interviewed and instead, a guy or woman with a microphone in
his/her hand relates his/her translation with a hopefully-disguised leaning to one side or the other.
But it has the potential to either put the viewer at ease or more favoured these days, infuriate them.
Sadly behind the camera, the charged-rhetoric is merely a means to get them from a previous story
dripping with negativity to the shapely Charlene and her weather forecast.
Ratings are everything and if it means looking serious when taking about Bigfoot or flying saucers
instead of mocking the subjects in the past, it's earnest faces all 'round as they stare into the camera
and tell you how the world turns.
The true answer is none of the above.
In terms of endangerment to life -of course, the residents of Israel and Iran can appreciate how
they have priority to the word 'importance' rather than a couple of wealthy troubadours struggling
to understand where their yearning for footlight-veneration ends.
It's really all about content. Those established conveyors of what we call 'daily news' have -not only
self-elevated themselves into the stratum of celebutante and dragged the viewers/listeners' interests
of what they wish to indulge themselves with, but have also left behind a reality that the majority of
people exist in day-to day simply because they've decided it's not interesting enough.
True, a school-appointed road-crossing guard who's been warned about giving high-fives to kids
passing on his/her location may get a mention, but the regular quest of keeping their customers
in either camp of emotive exasperation is always there, even in what the media used to call a
'Man-Bites-Dog' story.
There was a time when most outlets left the tribulations of what Frank Sinatra and latest squeeze
were going through to the more-Hollywood-orientated magazines, but now with a well-financed
system of talking-heads/influencer agencies and infotainment being easier to generate without
leaving one's desk, celebrity-trivia now sits beside earthquakes and moon-landings
Hence, what some say is 'dumbing-down' now can be no longer recognised.
Let's be truthful, the politics that's offered to the everyday consumer of news isn't real. The actual
policy-makers are not displayed or interviewed and instead, a guy or woman with a microphone in
his/her hand relates his/her translation with a hopefully-disguised leaning to one side or the other.
But it has the potential to either put the viewer at ease or more favoured these days, infuriate them.
Sadly behind the camera, the charged-rhetoric is merely a means to get them from a previous story
dripping with negativity to the shapely Charlene and her weather forecast.
Ratings are everything and if it means looking serious when taking about Bigfoot or flying saucers
instead of mocking the subjects in the past, it's earnest faces all 'round as they stare into the camera
and tell you how the world turns.
Read The TV Guide, yer' don't need a TV.