We are generally 'bombarded' twenty-four hours a day....seven days a week, and the rapid pace of news, public opinion, and hyped-up reaction....is dragging us along some path where things often don't make sense, or you end up with a story which is filled with 'holes'.
I can't think of a single story over the past couple of years where you felt entirely satisfied with the facts. Sadly, we have mostly two-star journalists around now....who don't seem worried about missing features of a story, or that the story seems to be just enough for a 12-year old juvenile, but not for what you'd consider an adult.
I sat and watched a Dick Cavett show this morning....June 1970. It was an odd group....Chet Huntley (the news guy who grew up in Montana), Raquel Welch, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, and Janis Joplin.
It was probably the oddest group ever assembled for a evening talk-show. Anyone remembering them today? No. You could test a hundred people, and the only ones knowing the four (or Cavett) would be those over the age of sixty.
They come to this odd point at the end of the hour, and Huntley is declaring retirement being not that far off, and that the pace of the news is one of those things drawing him to say 'enough'.
Oddly, as he lays out this 'pace of the news'....the group all kinda suggest the same thing. X-amount of information is laid out, and the sense of where this is going to lead onto....is missing.
You have to remember....this was 1970....before the internet came along, or cable news.
In today's environment? There just isn't enough time to sit and pause over what you were told....asking yourself what really happened here, and then using a 'red-pen' to note missing key items to the story. It's all told in a way to get a reaction....when the story is mostly a one-star story without much content.
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