Filed under: Capitalism, Crime, Economy, Media Bias, News, News of the Weird, Politics, Progressivism, Socialism | Tags: Headlines 3/30/17, Journalism Today, Made-up News
Late getting to the computer yesterday, so I was anxious to find out what had happened during the day. Apparently nothing. Nothing happened at all. There was an enormous amount of nit-picking, nattering and he-said she -said. If you paid the slightest attention to the news, your life has been diminished, your understanding of the world has shrunk and you know significantly less. The headlines:
“College Plans to Fire Professor who taught a ‘Men in Literature’ Course”
“It Took Three People Two Months to Create Hillary’s Campaign Logo”
“Cuba Reforms Are Stalling”
“How The Melting Pot Became Cultural Appropriation”
“Swarthmore Students Upset They Actually Got in Trouble for Office Sit-In Protest”
“Auschwitz Demonstrators Who Killed Sheep Weren’t Neo-Nazis.”
“Ashley Judd Embarrasses Herself On Women’s Rights”
“Ten Human Body Modifications You Can Expect In Next Decade”
“AP Reporter Says Sensational WaPo Claim on Tillerson Not True”
(Career diplomats say have not met him and have been instructed not to speak to him directly or make eye-contact)
These are all quite real and typical. There wasn’t anything at all that was actually what we would normally call news. I include no links, because if you read the articles you would know less than you do now. This may simply be a matter of not seeing the elephant in the room, or being more interested in nit-picking, perhaps it is really a comment on the current state of journalism.
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