The American Media Sucks

As a rule, the American media generally does not allow the inconveniences of reality to get in the way of a good story. Nor is it reluctant to make or report, with the most serious of faces, claims so ridiculous that they would incite side-splitting laughter in those individuals inclined toward rationality and logic. But in the United States the number of people who can muster a good chuckle at the reporting of the American media is scant. The rest have allowed themselves to be taken in by the constant farrago of political treacheries, religious duperies, cultural ribaldries, and idiotic punditries which bombard their unsuspecting minds under the guise of news and information.

The extent to which the media allows public debate to be manipulated by those in the government would strain the credulity of any person unacquainted with the American press. No claim, no matter how ludicrous, absurd, or downright stupid, is beyond receiving a legitimate portrayal if it is made by a high enough ranking American official. Thus, when former President Bush would say that the rather weak philosophical argument of “intelligent design” should be taught alongside Darwinian evolution in the nation’s science classes, the American media dutifully reported his imbecilic idea as if it were a perfectly valid suggestion. I am thankful he never asserted that the Earth is at the center of the solar system. Surely the next day’s headlines would have read: “Opinion Divided on Heliocentricity of Solar System.” In the media’s defense, a large segment of the population agrees with him on “intelligent design,” and so it stoops to the level of many of its consumers, which of course, makes good business practice.

There is a common belief held by many conservatives and even some sheepish liberals, that the American media exudes a left-wing bias, and has for some time. But if this is correct, the bias has not rubbed off on the American people. A Republican has won five of the last eight presidential elections. With the 1994 midterm elections, Republicans took control of the House for the next twelve years. The Senate followed in 2002. In addition, the Supreme Court presently has a conservative majority. If the media is in fact and in general a left-wing institution, it has been so incompetent in attempting to advance its agenda, it is a wonder why conservatives feel compelled to complain about it at all. As for the Democratic victories in the 2006 and 2008 elections, those happened because of the sheer ineptitude and craziness exhibited by the Republicans, who thought they could keep fucking most Americans in the ass without eventually getting shit on.

-Max