Whatever Happened to the Chocolate American?
Things I like: world history, anime, hip-hop, the global economy, classy pornography, video games, sub-pop culture, wicked guitar solos, comic books, science fiction, health & fitness, food, pets, and revolutionary points of view.
Things I don't like: corporate slavery, right-wing fanatics, left-wing fanatics, extremists of any kind, celebrity gossip, and people who tell me what I can and can't do who don't know shit about me.
I appreciate any feedback!
twitter.com/ChocolateyRod:
The commercial success of both Fox News and MSNBC is a source of nonpartisan sadness for me. While I can appreciate the financial logic of drowning television viewers in a flood of opinions designed to confirm their own biases, the trend is not good for the republic. It is, though, the natural outcome of a growing sense of national entitlement. Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s oft-quoted observation that “everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts,” seems almost quaint in an environment that flaunts opinions as though they were facts.
And so, among the many benefits we have come to believe the founding fathers intended for us, the latest is news we can choose. Beginning, perhaps, from the reasonable perspective that absolute objectivity is unattainable, Fox News and MSNBC no longer even attempt it. They show us the world not as it is, but as partisans (and loyal viewers) at either end of the political spectrum would like it to be. This is to journalism what Bernie Madoff was to investment: He told his customers what they wanted to hear, and by the time they learned the truth, their money was gone.
