If only we could collectively winnow out the noise in our
stream of daily data. If only we could clear out the nonsense and clutter from
the material, we see and hear each day. Why should the thoughts and musings of the
has-beens, never-really made its, and famous because they’re famous, have a
prime position in our stream of information, the so-called “news”?
Just because an actor once played a doctor in a movie
doesn’t provide the performer valid credentials to discuss the treatment of
cardiac failure. Just because a lovely woman once bared her breasts in a glossy
magazine to the eyes of millions of adoring men and women, doesn’t give her the
knowledge to speak with a heightened public persona about the workings of the
brain.
The demand for content, and I use that word loosely, is
so intense for companies providing news/infotainment. As a result, these purveyors
of data will print anything said by a person whose face has been seen before by
a large swath of the television watching populace. I don’t need to know how
star A copulated with star B. What I do need to know is how close are we to
war. I also need to know is how unhealthy are the choices being forced upon me
by a monolithic food distribution system. We need to know many things, but
factual scientific and political things, to live as responsible citizens of the
world.
I need knowledge from informed experts. I do not need
ramblings from a bosom enhanced pubis shaved talking Barbie doll.
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