WHY are so many in the media so
gleeful about Brian Williams' misfortune?
Look, I don't like the embellishments
at all, but it's hard for me to celebrate someone losing their job. It just
doesn't feel right. Moreover, the national media does far WORSE than Williams'
embellishments EVERY SINGLE day!
Our "news" is highly
filtered. We get the "stories" that some editors and their corporate
masters want us to get and they're delivered exactly HOW they want'em
delivered...that's LYING! In fact, it's far worse
than some petty personal embellishments by a vain and insecure anchor.
What's pretty comical, at least to me,
is those in the media who claim "Brian Williams' real crime is violating
the trust of the viewers."
ARE THEY KIDDING, or what?!
Look at the state of the national
media today! That's why the NY Times is going broke and why the traditional
networks sell faux "reality TV" far more effectively than their
"filtered" news. It's also why millions more people tune into REAL
"fake news" with John Stewart...because there's often more "real
stuff" there than on the nightly newscasts.
When you get down to it, so much of
the "filtering" of our news creates so many lies and obfuscations, I
can't blame a Brian Williams for embellishing, or puffing up some accounts to
make himself look a bit better. Hell, a LOT of stories are crafted to make
things look either better or worse than they really are, you know...in reality.
So now Brian Williams is going to get
crucified for lying, in a business built on lies?
How much sense does any of that really
make?
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