There was some point in 2021 where I was watching a Sunday political talk-show, and some group of three with a moderator were trying to get a point across, and it just struck me....it was a conversation that you'd expect out of 11-year-old kids...there were no facts, they'd dumbed down the points enough where they made no sense, and there could not be a reasonable conclusion.
In simple terms....it's become a half-ass conversation with no value. I'd say from that point on (2021)....at least once or twice a day....I see a news programs (from CNN, Fox, BBC, MSNBC, etc) that has been constructed with no clear 'drawn lines'. It's like you went into a Piggly Wiggly....grabbed a couple of clerks, and asked the group to sit at some table to talk over Social Security reform.
These conversations seem to be existing mostly to drive you to x-position, yet you keep asking....can you give me more of the y-points, or explain this in better detail.
You almost get an opinion that they want fake problems to exist....keeping away from real problems....so that you don't interfere with incompetence.
A magic show? I'd offer that idea....that they seem to think that if you are kept busy with a decent magic show.....you won't go and jump into such-and-such problem of a bigger nature.
Am I watching less news TV? Yeah, I noticed that in the past year....I'm going more to podcasts. I probably watch four hours a week now of British intellectuals and comedians. From the American side? I probably view or listen to a minimum of a dozen hours a week.
The podcast folks avoiding the half-ass nature of what TV news slipped to? I'd suggest that presently....the podcast folks want something to be informative and interesting.....while the TV news people seem to be focused more on propaganda value.
An odd development? I don't think anyone started out with the half-ass agenda....it just landed there in the end.
What's next? That's what I wonder about.
