I Rant, Lovelingly, About The Media, I Really Do

I'm not one of those who normally blames everything on the media. Or one who thinks the media is the one destroying the country. Oh don't get me wrong, there ARE people destroying the country, but the media isn't part of it...they're just usually within microphone and camera range while it's going on.

Which isn't exactly a bad thing in and of itself.
After all journalism is supposed to on the sidelines, watching, guarding against people taking advantage of other people- yes they should, for the most part remain neutral.
And they DO have some problems when it comes to access. Since the right wing machine co-oped radio long ago, and effectively entrenched themselves in think tanks and fed into judicial streams like The Federalist Society all in an effort to squeeze out some right wing sausage and package it like actual news. Can't blame the GOP for setting up their Pravda merchants to disseminiate their spin. Nor can you entirely blame the Mainstream media for being forces to pick up these right wing ding bat stories and report them since the less time they spend on some scandalous smear is just one more notch in their 'secretly liberal pinko American haters' stick the GOP uses to shut out media members from certain beats within the government.

So there are rules, written, unwritten, observed, ignored, ridiculed, and occsasionally, very occasionally kept sacrosanct...

But few brave souls out there never get the right assignments, or they get cut out of the loop and have to nad and dig, sometimes in the worst parts of Washington and its sleazy contrails to find one single person to back up their story...to go on record.

If that sounds like easy work I'd say sign up.

But for now the media is nothing but a echo chamber, group think, let's not get shut out of the next trip, party, experience...but what does it matter when there are more people listending to Limbaugh, Hannity and O'Reilley dump, distort, and practically crap on your hard work, only so they don't have to answer a serious quesiton they haven't been given the talking points by the White House.

Now this little ramble COULD be the result of the fact that I'm tired of hearing the same 15 second sound bytes from the same full of crap reporter who really just heard it from a source who's probably playing him and the guy from CNN, MSNBC and even the guy from Fox who is supposed to have the codebook that decifers the daily White House lie-a-palooza,

But seriously...all you media dudes...the ones I know have ethics but they are fraying at the edges of the job you want to keep, the position in the food chain you want to protect, just try to remember that truth follow you everywhere even if its ultimately at the third daily in DesMoines...

Af if you can't muster up that kind of courage then just give up and become this...



Cus if we're going to hell, the least we can do if get hot weather babes in tanktops or a free pizza.