Hacks

Sometimes it can be challenging moving to a new city by oneself. I signed up for it, and I have few regrets. Of course, were it not for exceptions, there would be no real reason to communicate, so I have this thought on my mind. It’s ever present, largely due to my lifestyle and my days’ events. I have a confession, if you haven’t seen it thus far, from reading this Blog; I am a bit of a news junkie.

Being a news junkie, and having that combined with an election year as absurdly long as this one seems, only adds to the frequency of my MSNBC/CNN viewing. In watching MSNBC I have my favorites, e.g. Keith Oberman, but the challenge with MSNBC is NBC’s absurd production of shows like, “To Catch a Predator” or that show about prisons. That isn’t journalism it is tabloid porn, which is annoying as it stands. For lack of a better way of putting it, it is news production Hack-ism.

Of course, provided the number of Hacks in the Production Offices of NBC, one can only change their channel to, for instance, CNN. CNN isn’t nearly as good of a news source as it once was. CNN is full of jacks as well, most notably this Glen Beck character. Beck is a Wannabe large syndication AM Radio “conservative,” who takes contrarian positions to antagonize positions of conventionally agreed upon change activists. Whatever, Beck’s positions are what one would find tuning into Rush, or someone of the like. Were Beck talented he would be Brooks of the New York Times or Gigot of the Wall Street Journal, alas he isn’t. I could go on and rant about Coulter, but why bother?

Of course, we only have ourselves to blame: Truth in the Market.