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| Posted by: Emory Schley |
5/23/2007 8:15 PM |
Making a mountain from a molehill used to be just an old saying when I was younger, but now I’m at an age where I see it happening more and more frequently. We are surrounded by such shenanigans. The more you look, the more you start to find. As a driver who always looks way down the road in order to avoid any dire “surprises” in the very near future, I’m more inclined to wonder aloud where all this molehill-into-mountain business will ultimately lead us, a little later in our common near future.
It seems like some of our news media seize every opportunity to regale us with breathless reports on whatever crisis they can find, no matter how trivial it may ultimately be. TV newspeople seem to be the biggest offenders. Reporters seem to be programmed to focus in on whatever negative aspects of a story they can find. Oftentimes, more positive aspects of a story are either totally ignored, or appended to the end of a story, almost as an afterthought.
I’m aware that bad news sells more readily than good news, but I often wonder if there isn’t a reasonable limit to just how much doom and gloom we can tolerate as a society and still retain our robust character. So much political coverage seems to smack of theater or soap opera rather than an honest reporting of true life events.
It’s not very difficult to find agenda-based journalism in either broadcast or print media, if you just really open your eyes and take an honest, unbiased look.
What I truly fear, even more than the slant, is the fact that so many of us just seem to automatically accept whatever we’re told without any conscious application of logic to what we’re being force-fed. The road we are trodding is more than just a slippery slope, it's a dangerous one, too. |
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