I'm a Political Junkie

OK….so where to start. Here’s a good place…..so…..I totally stopped watching MSNBC. I was addicted to that channel…for a very long time. I loved those guys. I became such a huge fan of the likes of Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann and the newbie David Gregory (from my alma mater, no less). And then…they all totally tanked on my candidate. Not that I am a narrow minded woman’s libber…but GOOD GRIEF, when did the news go from presenting the facts, to actually shaping the news to fit your candidate?? I was so angry I actually wrote to Chris. Like he even read it??? I think not, but I was livid. So, I dropped out. They had become as bad as FOX Noise.
Not much different with the newspapers either. The NYT totally got behind the new guy, after giving the thumbs up to the Lady of Chappaqua. Check the editorials today…and they are picking away at the new guy like gannets. Go figure.

When did reporting the news become making the news??

Say it ain’t so, Joe…say it ain’t so. My Grandfather must be turning in his grave. He was such a purist about the news. He set such a fine example of staying in touch with current events…albeit from his rocker by the radio. Just the facts Mam, just the facts. He would hate the hypocrisy of the reporting of today….actually its not really reporting. Its self-indulgent crap most of the time. Just the facts, Mam…just the facts. (does anyone even remember Joe Friday?)

How do they teach journalism in school today? Seriously, how do they teach it? The cable channels now totally spin the stories to fit the beliefs of who generally owns the station. Can you say Rupert Murdoch? The spinning is now seeping into the network news channels. It’s pretty much all over the place. How do they teach this stuff? Oh wait, I know, they don’t. They send you to the Creative Writing School.

We have lost some of the great newscasters of old. That’s what they were…..newscasters. They cast the news out there to us and WE pulled it in and put our own interpretation and spin on it. I don’t need Chris Matthews; I don’t need Keith Olberman, nor David Gregory or Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity or any of the rest of them.
Come back Uncle Walter. Come back Tom B. You are not too old to give me my daily dose of news. Just the facts Walter, just the facts Tom.