Blame the media for your ignorance? Look in the mirror.

Seattle Weekly

E Pluribus Stupid
Blame the media for your ignorance? Look in the mirror.

by Knute Berger

It’s common for people to kick the crap out of the news media, and much of it is deserved.

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For concerned lefties, the truth is that the media are in fact reporting on the stolen election, the Bush foreign-policy fiascos, the outsourcing of jobs by “Benedict Arnold” CEOs, global warming, global dimming, global rimming. The dirty secret is that more people need to get off their asses and read more newspapers and magazines and listen to and watch informative TV and radio, to become halfway informed. I remember when a paid subscription to the Sunday New York Times came to the mailbox the following Thursday. Now you can get that paper delivered to your porch daily, or, better, you can read virtually every major newspaper in the world, for free, every day on the Web. Or listen to the BBC. Or watch Al Jazeera. Or follow the news wires.

Unfortunately, our current leadership is no role model in showing us how to be responsible, informed citizens. George W. Doorknob rejects the news in favor of what his aides tell him. “I like to have a clear outlook,” he says. Or is it an empty head? Donald Rumsfeld has said he’s given up reading newspapers because they’re a downer. (See, it’s not the mess he’s helped to make in the world, it’s the media’s fault—again.)



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