The Media is Stupid

[erpowers]

This morning I was watching "Good Morning America-Weekend Edition". One of the early topics was the engagement of Jenna Bush. The main question this morning was whether there would be another White House wedding. One of the first people shown in this piece said that they thought a wedding at the White House would actually lift the mood of the American people. Another person shown in the piece said she thought the White House should have a big lavish wedding. My thoughts while watching this piece included, first thinking people would not be happy seeing a Bush White House wedding. Next I thought the wedding would be a big contrast between Bush, his family, and the rest of America, especially those with children in the military. I thought that some people with children in the military might think my son or daugther just lost his or her leg in Iraq and Bush is giving his daugther a White House wedding. Some other people might have thought my son would have made a great husband or my daugther would have made a great bride, but they were not able to make it home from Iraq.

I just do not see how this president having a White House wedding could make Americans happy. Maybe I am wrong, but I also cannot see how anyone else thinking that people would be happy to see Bush's daugther, who has never seemed to know what a hard day of work means, get married in the White House.

The war is bad enough, but that is just the beginning of the problems for Americans. Along with the lives of people's children, some of them very young, being in danger in two separate war zones, people are still having a hard time making a living. There are now people who are on the verge of losing their homes while trying to provide for their families. I just do not see how seeing Bush's daugther getting married in the White House would make people happy. I contend it would just highlight the vast difference between Bush and America's working class. Bush's daugther, who does not seem to have a job, or want to keep a job gets a big lavish wedding while working class America's children struggle to stay in school and go off to fight two wars.

[trayted]

1. Definitely. They couldn't win a debate against most of the YearlyKos crowd

[Donnachaidh]

2. The media is ARROGANT

I wouldn't classify them as stupid.

They think that a wedding will deflect from the WAR and the imploding economy. What they don't realize is the fact that people will become even angrier if Bush throws a *lavish* wedding for that drunken sot of a daughter of his. And if it does turn out that it was a *shotgun* wedding, it will be yet another embarrassment to the public. :shrug:

[EV_Ares]

3. What is going on here is the WH has the Corporate Media which is

in their pockets basically throwing all this out to get a feel of public opinion about a WH wedding. The media also wants this WH wedding bigtime. They don't care about the deaths in Iraq, they pushed the war themselves so they could have the story. Did they ever ask any questions when Cheney was doing his wardrums; now they want a WH wedding story so they are pushing it as well. Watch, it is all we will hear about now, the ring, etc. I wish the fu__ the public would get some balls.

[MarianJack]

4. In Addition to Stupid,...

...I'd say corrupt and complicit.

DELIBERATE stupidity!

[alphafemale]

5. It would make Katie Couric happy.

As well as all the other corporate whores.

Who cares what the American people think?

[Bitwit1234]

6. Well - these are the people who thinkg

it is better to vote on the American Idol than to vote for the president of the United States. After all the watch every move Brittany Nicole Paris Mel Lindsay etc etc etc make. A big lavish wedding in the white house would really get my dander up if my son or daughter, or grandson or grand daughter was sweating their life away in the Iraq hell hole. bush better hold off or have a quiet wedding and announce it afterwards.

[Doctor_J]

7. No, they're not stupid

They're complicit in the myriad crimes of BushRoveCheney. When the public finally comes together for the next revolution, Blitzer and Zahn and all the rest of the whores who have greased our slide to hell are going to be a very unhappy lot indeed.

[pretzel4gore]

9. goddam right...

i don't think there any need for trials or anything, once the traitor is id'd.

[bullimiami]

8. They are not stupid. They play stupid so they will be liked.

They are so frightened to offend those who would be offended they play dumb and oblivious.
Realists (liberals) are not offended by the truth, but there is also no reason to be frightened or pander to us.

[tomreedtoon]

10. They are stupid,, but not like you think.

You seem to believe that they are all conscious propagandists or members of the Illuminati. You don't see television news reporters for what they are - entertainers.

They aren't interested in "truth." They want to keep their audiences enthralled. That means showing building after building blowing up or catching fire, drive-by shootings and traffic jams. It isn't as simple as "if it bleeds, it leads." It's more like "make them laugh, make them cry, make them watch."

It's true that there are deliberate propagandists like News Corp, but most journalists just want people to watch them. And they judged, for the longest time, that people wanted to watch Bush. Now they're sensing people don't like Bush any more, so they're paying attention to other people.

The central point of being a "media whore" is that a whore will always go for whoever pays her or him. Right now Bush is running out of credit (in more ways than monetary). If there is a big Democratic win watch the whores start to slide up to the side of Democrats who can pay them better. They won't be any more honest; they'll still be whores.