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    WHERE DO WE GO WRONG?

    By Richard Day on Sat, 12/12/2015 - 2:27am |

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    Okay, I need a new notebook.

    I mean, I need pages that can be properly folded!

    I watch my cable far tooooo much.

    Yet, I eschew most of the messages.

    These ads tell me I am in need.

    And who the hell is not in need?

    If I have heartburn, all I need to do is find a teaspoon of  baking soda (Arm and Hammer is communistic to say the least) and within thirty seconds, my abdominal disruption will cease!

    The ads tell me that 'THEY' have THE  answer for me.

    And the answer is only three or six bucks!

    But the real answer costs 3 cents?

    But alka-seltzer along with 5 other corporations, appear on cable every frickin day.

    Are you upset by some goddamn burrito?

    Well, buy us!

    THIS IS CONSUMER IDIOCY!

    We should be ashamed?

    But this is how we think; as human beings; as citizens; as constituents.

    If ads did not sell, the corps would stop making ads.

    Human beings are idiots; including me.

    Trump is on cable news every goddamn minute and just the other days, I see him on the History Channel---three days in a row.

    Trump has spent  $300,000 on ads this entire year?

    Jeb has spent tens of millions. 

    Trump is on air every fucking hour of every fucking day!

    Do I miss Jeb?

    No I hate the sombitch.

    I hate all the repubs except I kind of like Kasich and believe it or not, I like the SC Senator

    who impeached my Prez because both these folks appear to say what they believe

    So what is the message I am receiving?

    Media coverage TRUMPS everything; even ads.

    HA

    JUST SPELL MY NAME RIGHT FOR CHRISSAKES

    Every appearance on cable is an ad.

    Truth is ethereal.

    There is no truth.

    Just coverage.

    I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS!

    But there it is.

    I really hope there is a God who might redeem us all.

    GOD HELP US ALL

     

     

     

    That is all I got tonite! Ha

     

     

     

     

    Comments

    There was a book written in the 1940's called The Hucksters.  It was an "expose" of the advertising world.  It's more than a bit dated now, but it just shows that the hypocrisy and phoniness of Madison Avenue has been around for a very long time.  

    Media coverage has become a game for the consultants who cajole and wheedle and wine and dine the producers who are in need to talking heads to fill screen time.  None of it means anything. It is all illusion ... the illusion of "gravitas". the illusion of substance.   The people who talk to the people we want to know more about are interviewed by the people who work for the people who talk to the people that we want to know more about ... right after this message from our sponsor and while a lower part of the screen advertises the upcoming interview in the next segment which is an exclusive interview with the person who opposes the person that is now being interviewed and that will be coming up right after this interview ... and the following message.

    We are being manipulated and massaged and mesmerized by meaningless drivel which has taken the place of issues of substance.  Why?  Because that is what the media does best and why not do what you do best?  No one wants to watch what the media does badly, right?  So we sit and suck our thumbs at the vapid stupidity of our news programs and we become mentally sedentary.  Meanwhile, inside our heads, our minds are screaming and throwing imaginary brickbats at the TV screen.


    by MrSmith1 on Sat, 12/12/2015 - 3:08am

    Mr. Smith, you say what I wish to say, but you say it so much better.

    I hereby render unto Mr. Smith the Dayly Comment of the Day Award for this here Dagblog Site, given to all of him from all of me.

    Screw my blog rant; this is really really fine.

    ha


    by Richard Day on Sat, 12/12/2015 - 10:45am

    Thanks DD, I am honored.  You inspire me to write even in the middle of the night. 


    by MrSmith1 on Sat, 12/12/2015 - 12:17pm

    ha


    by Richard Day on Sat, 12/12/2015 - 10:46am

    Richard, you are not alone in your observations of the media. Trumps candidacy gets eyeballs to the television screen. News anchors were not going to call out Trump's lies to his face when he came on their shows. Trump would threaten to walk away decreasing the eyeballs on a given travel. Truth does not matter. 

    Part of the reason truth doesn't matter is because of the money someone like Trump brings into the channel. The other reason truth does not matter is that news anchors don't have a grasp of the facts. If Trump shows a bogus graph or states a lie as truth. News anchors don't have the facts in their grasp. Therefore people ove to trusted sites on the Internet.

    Many people realize what you realize about the media.


    by rmrd0000 on Sat, 12/12/2015 - 3:10pm

    I have been thinking about this subject.

    We have the WEB!

    We speak here.

    Pa;,palmolive nor campbells nor exxon nor.....whatever

    Tells us so far what to write,

    This right doesn't give us free speech and we are all afraid od the 'other' side.

    We are stuck within our ow beliefs.

    All we can do is fight fire with fire.

    Words with words.

    Let us hope that the world of words demonstrates that we have been victorious!


    by Richard Day on Mon, 12/14/2015 - 6:45pm