Glenn Reynolds says that the media hoopla over Kobe/Arnold/California is good because it keeps the ritalin-needy media from digging into the WsMD issue until this fall when the Administration will be able to make the case.
He's wrong. The media will bounce from these to some other issue, which will either be inane like Kobe or the child kidnapping 'epidemic' last summer or serious but hopelessly biased against authority, against the truth when truth-telling will lose viewers. News is not about straight talk. It never was, I don't think; but no doubt it's worse now and continually worsening, that's the way things usually develop without vigilant action. And when you've got 4 twenty-four hour news channels, you don't have time to get the real story; a lovely irony.
I think "Problems of the Media" is another issue I'd like to in-depth blog sometime. I'm going to be living in Canada beginning Sept. 1, and one of the things I'm looking forward to is the different approach they have to media control. I'll try to get back to this later.
Posted by Tim at August 12, 2003 06:36 PM | TrackBack