Thursday 8 July 2010
Did the media help to pull the trigger?
True, Johann, they did.
Worse, in the larger scheme of things, the media help lower the tone of our politics by covering nearly every self-serving attack made by a member of one party on a member of another. The media know that these attacks will not help the electorate, they know that these attacks are made solely to advance the career of the attacker, and they know that the effect of a continuing media diet of such attacks is to lower the public's respect for politicians while increasing anomie and political apathy.
Why do they persist, knowing all this: because it sells copies/air time and they do not actually care about the country, only about their jobs and their profits.
True, Johann, they did.
Worse, in the larger scheme of things, the media help lower the tone of our politics by covering nearly every self-serving attack made by a member of one party on a member of another. The media know that these attacks will not help the electorate, they know that these attacks are made solely to advance the career of the attacker, and they know that the effect of a continuing media diet of such attacks is to lower the public's respect for politicians while increasing anomie and political apathy.
Why do they persist, knowing all this: because it sells copies/air time and they do not actually care about the country, only about their jobs and their profits.
# posted by Had It in Holland Park @ 01:38 
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