Posted on 06/25/2007 9:51:39 PM PDT by gpapa
People can get attention either from their accomplishments or from their deliberate attempts to get attention. Today, almost everywhere you look, people seem to be putting their efforts into getting attention.
Wild hairdos, huge tattoos, pierced body parts, outlandish clothing, weird statements -- all these have become substitutes for achievements.
Some parents give their children off-the-wall names, as if that is the way to give them some kind of individuality. On the contrary, it means joining a stampede toward showiness.
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Or to put it another way, it's like how non conformists all dress the alike. :)
A two-fer. Who’d a thunk it? Thanks.
Get rid of “the” in that response.
I just happened to stumble on it after it was posted. It happened once before.
Congressman Billybob
In sum, the people who decide who and what gets attention are superficial.But then, you could tell that by the fact that they write to short deadlines, or even go on-air to report "breaking news." They have a saying for it, "There's nothing more worthless than yesterday's newspaper." That speaks to the imperative to make the deadline for today's newspaper. But if yesterday's newspaper is already junk, just how valuable can today's newspaper actually be?
And although Fox News Channel is supposedly less liberal than the rest of the alphabet soup, it is just as driven by deadline pressure as any other journalism outlet, and therefore is just as superficial as the rest - only slightly less negative and slightly less arrogant. The combination of superficiality, and arrogance (in its presumption of objectivity and its presumption of moral superiority over those who actually do things as opposed to merely criticizing) is what gives journalism its so-called "liberal" (actually socialist, of course) character.
A group of Freepers are about to republish Dr. Sowell's "Unfinished Business" in a special edition of The Chronicle, the campus newspaper. This is being done with the approval of Dr. Sowell and Creators Syndicate. For information on this, and an opportunity to take part, please click below.Congressman Billybob
Latest article, "Duke is Not Off the Hook"
7 posted on 06/26/2007 8:54:12 AM EDT by Congressman Billybob (Please visit www.ArmorforCongress.com)
Here's my take: 'News' is nothing more than what the Elite Press Corps deems worthy of printing or breaking. One glaring example of this is the underwhelmingly reported story of the NAACP's shortfall in contributions due to their stance on Gay Rights, thus resulting in the 40% cutbacks. But of course you're getting wall to wall reports on the discord among the GOP faithful.
...As you've contended and I now fully agree, 'Broadcast News Is Unnecessary And Illegitimate'.
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