Polianiac

Approximately 82 seconds into last night’s Anderson Cooper 360, I hit the big wall. You know the wall—that moment when you hear your voice silently scream, “I can’t stand this mush-brained excuse for discourse one more second!”  That wall…

Where would we be without a 24/7 news cycle, besides back in the 80s? Seriously, where would we be and what would we be doing? How would we conduct our lives and could we survive? Something tells me we might be better off.

I think it is like a chocolate addiction. If you eat chocolate every moment of every day, then chocolate becomes common and mundane. In order to break out of the mundane-ness, one would find a way to “spice up” the now dull chocolate in hopes of breaking the monotony.  So this is how we got Jalapeno Fudge… sorry—digression…

The way I see it, the 24/7 news cycle requires that we stay up to speed. It requires that we know specifically and contextually what is being talked about in order to adequately process and assign significance to the information. They know we can’t do that. They know that in order for us to go about our own lives, we have no chance of keeping up…

Make no mistake; this post is not about the “Big Lie” Liberal Media Bias—this post is about We The People and our own participation in the perpetuation of not keeping up— Who benefits and who gains?

A Citizen Kane (1941) moment: How to Run a Newspaper…