Enternews

Have you watched your enternewscast lately? You know, what used to be the news but is now a series of entertainment fluff about the hottest celebrity target for the media to trash. I watched the news last night and swear it wasn't until the 3rd or 4rd segment on the news that a real news story appeared. I guess we are all getting used to the latest Britney Spears report or the Paris Hilton controversies (will news of that dysfunctional women even die after her own death?)
I have a hard time understanding why people here in the U.S. and in most other countries world-wide aren't interested much in what is really important to their lives. I really think most news watchers feel Britney's bald head is more relevant than Iranians obtaining nuclear weapon capability. At least, the news givers think so, They devote more time on their casts to fluff than substance, and few people are complaining about it. Even the editorial page (once the bastion of seriousness) is a potpourri of celebrity gossip and inanity.
It is easy to find real news on cable TV now, but I think it should be just as easy on mainstream network and local news casts. Doesn't it bother you that reality TV shows are now reported on serious newscasts? Does our lack of interest in the serious show a decline of intellect (I knew those stupid TV shows would eventually killed the brain!)? Are we just fed up with news because so much of it is bad and hearing about it easy?
I often go to news web sites on line, not for the news reports, but to see what the stories they write about involve. Invariably, even among headline stories there is "enternews" for the masses to enjoy. The media now gives us sugar coated medicine because we don't want the real stuff (real news). This in turn makes people less critical of what they see and hear presented as news. Thus, Anna Nicole gossip became news and U.N. resolutions become footnotes that are all but ignored. Won't this lead one day to newscasts that are more easily controlled, given the lack of guile viewers and readers of news seem to have these days?
What to do about all this? Well, I try to ignore as much of the fluff as possible and seek out real news. Maybe patronizing real news will bring forth more of it. At the least, it will make news reporters aware that I want more real news and less idiocy. There is just so much nonsense reported today, and nonsense is only good because common sense about news is so absent these days. News is such an illusion now. I remember what Mark Twain once said about the idea of perception. "In a museum in Havana there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man."
Ha! I probably shouldn't propagate that quote because if it gets out to the news departments we may have two Anna Nicole skulls to deal with on some future nightly news cast. You know.....a month of stories about which body buried was Anna's. It would be a ratings bonanza...
Hmmmmm Good idea I have..I should look for a job in a network news department.