I started watching for a moment but saw that he was going to blame the media for people being more interested in LeBron James than state budgets or the US/Mexican border. What a load of crap. It's insanely easy to find a wealth of news about state budgets, the government, taxes, the upcoming elections and a thousand other "important" topics that 95% of the nation thinks are complete snoozers. People don't follow those stories, not because information in unavailable, but because people don't care.
In this age, the only excuse for not being informed is apathy. That's not to make a judgment call on apathy (we can't all care equally about everything) but if you don't know about some aspect of modern issues, it's because you didn't look, not because the nightly news ran a story they knew people actually wanted to watch.
Edit: Watching further, it just gets stupider.
Edited, Jul 10th 2010 12:29pm by Jophiel
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Belkira wrote:
Wow. Regular ol' Joph fan club in here.