I’m Fixing To Quit Listening To The Media

I’m fixing to quit listening to the media.

The media is like a gossip machine that blows everything out of proportion, exaggerates, embellishes and distorts, which leaves us dazed and confused rather than truly informed.

Does anyone remember the oil spill in the gulf, the one of epic, biblical proportions? The one The New York Times predicted as an apocalypse, painting grim pictures of 1,000 miles of irreplaceable wetlands and beaches, fragile species wiped out and a region and an industry economically crippled for years?

The one the government called a potentially unprecedented environmental disaster, and the one scientist suggested that the oil might hitch a ride on the loop current in the gulf, bringing havoc to the Atlantic Coast? Remember that one?

It seems they are fishing and shrimping, and swimming and frolicking in the surf down on the Gulf these days. The scientists are reporting a newly discovered type of oil-eating microbe suddenly is flourishing in the Gulf and has gobbled up the spill.
The media isn’t saying anything, but rather are off on a tangent on Koran burnings.

Remember the swine flu pandemic, the one which was going to kill us all? At the height of the scare the media warned of thousands upon thousands of deaths and extolled the necessity of everyone getting a vaccine.

They said that we all would know someone who would die during the epidemic. Not only did I not know anyone who died of it, I didn’t even know of anyone who got it.

The media isn’t saying anything, but rather are salivating on the latest antics of Lady Gaga.

Maybe Will Rogers put it best when he said, “All I know is what I read in the papers and that’s an alibi for my ignorance.”
Or maybe it was Mark Twain when he said, “A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”

I’m fixing to go see what’s on the news.