Reply #15: What really kills it for me is the latter-day [View All]

[Tangerine LaBamba]

concept of "opposing views," which means that every asshole who thinks the Earth is flat gets his or her fifteen minutes, and people actually behave as if what these clods are saying has value!

I don't want to know what people with a phone think of a news report. I don't give a rat's ass what some blogger thinks. I did care what Walter Cronkite had to say, how he framed it, the historical context in which it was relayed, and how it fit into my perspective on the world for that day, that decade, that lifetime.

Today, it's now news, it's not informative - it's cheap, shoddy entertainment, and the airheads are without any redeeming virtues or any intellectual depth or curiosity.

I am so glad I'm old enough to have experienced the great newscasters, and to have had parents who knew what had value, and who invited Murrow and Cronkite, and Huntley and Brinkley, and Alistair Cooke into our home on a regular - sometimes daily - basis.

It'll never be like that again, and we are all the poorer for it..........................................