Regarding the United States’ Dangerously Air Headed Mainstream Media — CBS Sunday Morning’s Decision to Help Dick Cheney Promote His — “I’m always Wrong and Proud of It” — Book

© 2015 Peter Free

 

31 August 2015

 

 

Do you sometimes wonder . . .

 

. . . about the arguably indefensible news prioritization decisions that our American media so often make?

 

For example, yesterday — CBS News aired Sunday Morning’s extended blurb that gave voice to the perennially wrong Dick Cheney’s theme, Put Blood on My Drums of War.

 

See, Sunday Morning, Sharp Talk from Dick and Liz Cheney, CBS News (30 August 2015)

 

 

It apparently is not enough for the thought-challenged folks at CBS to recognize that . . .

 

(i) former Vice President Cheney,

 

(ii) former President George W. Bush

 

and

 

(iii) their companion Gang of Reality-Deniers —

 

were wrong (and lied) about Iraq, but that they continue to be wrong (and lie) about the same subject.

 

 

Given that History does occasionally make . . .

 

(a) what is true, apparent

 

and

 

(b) what is not, clear

 

— since when is it the media’s job to keep such an long list of deadly mistaken folks in the limelight?

 

Especially so, when this prioritization of manufactured news stories happens at the current President’s expense vis a vis his effort to prevent more of the same kind of insanity? (Via his attempt to market a non-proliferation nuclear weapons agreement with Iran.)

 

 

We (sadly) know the answer to this question

 

It is easier to sell toxic non-thinking to a minority of angrily impulsive people among the American public than it is to come up with something thoughtfully helpful. Like — for example — a fair-minded, evidence-including analysis of the President’s proposed nuclear non-proliferation deal with Iran.

 

 

The moral? — Our mainstream press is, on balance, actively assisting our nation’s brain-wimpy decline

 

The United States’ now incessant Dance of Fools continues largely dependent upon the mainstream media’s slavish support of it.

 

Virtually uninterrupted coverage of trollish Donald Trump, Fool Incarnate — at the evident expense of every other Republican 2016 presidential candidate — is another example of this phenomenon.

 

As the United States continues to focus on people, whose opinions foolishly attempt to contradict now voluminous evidence, we merely accelerate our fall from national effectiveness.