Why are so many folk so mad? In particular it seems to me that a great number of newscasters make a living out of being mad. Doreen and I watch Good Morning America and ABC in general for our biased news, or news lite. This may be odd in light of the fact that I believe Roone Arledge, creator of the great program Wide World of Sports, ruined news casting when he took over ABC news (1977) and decided it should be a money maker rather than a loss leader for stations. He’s also the idiot that created Monday night football. Now news looks more like the Enquirer rather than the “That’s the way it is.”l reporting of Walter Kronkite or friendly "Good Night Chet, good night David of Huntly and Brinkley Report , and Walter K. Smith etc. If you too young to remember those days, it sad. You got better, clearer news with a lot less ads.
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What brought this to mind is the Top Mom trial coverage on GMA when they bring in Nancy Grace, who seems mad all the time, also rude, breaking into the conversation constantly. But she is hardly alone. Especially among commentators like, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Chris Matthews and the like. Always mad, mad, mad; as well as rude, rude, rude. Debate today seems like who can out mad and out rude the other. Political candidates continue to get mad at each other and spin the news, (lie) about each other with impunity. You can find factual news today, but it is difficult. Even some so call fact checking blogs put their spin on things. And I wonder how FOX news can possibly call itself a news network? Public Television probably does the best but it takes too long for most folk and seems boring compared the more salacious stations. I like the BBC myself, at least I think I would if I could find it.
Do I sound mad about this? Hmm, guess so.
Mad is the New Happy. If you show lots of anger and rudeness now they call you 'bold', 'decisive' or 'courageous'. These days I often hear people use the pejorative term, "politically correct" where 20 years ago they would have used the word "polite" - which may be why politeness has lost favor in public circles too. Nobody dares be accused of being 'politically correct' so being sufficiently rude will prevent any risk of that. ;-)
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