Nov 29 2009

Priorities

Posted by Len on Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at 6:28 pm CT in General

If one is curious as to why the United States is rapidly failing as a nation, one need only check the priorities of our mainstream media.

I had the pleasure of watching The CBS Evening News this evening. Their lead story was about a pampered billionaire who threw a tantrum at oh-two-thirty in the morning and ran his 2009 Cadillac Escalade into a fire hydrant and a tree in his neighbor’s yard. Their second story was about four police officers who were gunned down execution-style as they sat in a coffee shop on a Sunday morning preparing to begin their shifts.

It is good to see that we have our priorities in order, isn’t it?
 

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9 Responses to “Priorities”

  1. # dickster1961on 29 Nov 2009 at 20:11

    yeah, those are about the same level of importance

  2. # OMon 29 Nov 2009 at 21:35

    Yep. I still don’t know why I’m supposed to care about Tiger Woods facial lacerations.

  3. # Stephanie Barron 29 Nov 2009 at 23:23

    The problem isn’t just the media. It’s the public that has its priorities out of whack.

  4. # Ruthon 30 Nov 2009 at 00:46

    Yeah, and most news programs I see have at least one story (many times the leading story!) about the “panic” over the H1N1 flu. If the media would shut up about it there would be no panic! I mean, seriously, how many stories do we need saying people need to get the flu shot but it’s not available yet?? There should be more news stories about the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act and the National Animal Identification System, but you never hear ANYTHING about these issues on the news. CPSIA could (make that HAS) shut down or severely hamper the operations of many (maybe most?) small and medium sized companies making products for children (google Rick Woldenburg, he’s got an awesome blog about it), and NAIS will be the end of the family farm as we know it (google “No NAIS”, there’s tons of sites about it).

    Why was the “stimulus” money given to the banks and financial companies to begin with? The people who should’ve been given it were the ones who were losing their homes to foreclosure (and still are, thanks to the irresponsible banks giving huge bonuses to their greedy higher-ups instead of using it to free up the credit markets like they were SUPPOSED TO).

  5. # Robon 30 Nov 2009 at 08:14

    Well, don’t worry…. that mean ol’ billionaire will be punished soon with higher taxes to pay for universal health coverage for people who like to stay home watching television.

  6. # cheron 30 Nov 2009 at 08:54

    The viewing public has a salacious appetite for the absurd. Tiger Woods trumps media coverage while four police officers were gunned down. We are a celebrity-oriented society and that is at least part of the failure of people to be ill-informed on real issues. It is a pity.

  7. # Lenon 30 Nov 2009 at 09:03

    @ Rob:
    You don’t need to worry about that “mean ol’ billionaire,” Rob. Even if he is asked to help out his country with a few more tax dollars, he still will not paying anywhere near the rate he would have been paying under Ronnie Reagan (had he been alive and paying taxes back then).

  8. # amy lilleyon 30 Nov 2009 at 16:32

    my sentiments exactly…unbelievable..

  9. # bluzdudeon 30 Nov 2009 at 19:48

    It’ll be the Tiger News Cycle, right up until the next celebrity does something monumentally stupid.