First Blog

Cable News.  I watch cable news mostly.  You can tell what stations if I tell you the advertisers.  A. Insurance, life, auto, home, all.  B. Drugs, many for unusual conditions. C. Automobiles. D. Weight loss programs – where the food is mailed to you.   High profit products all, I see the same ads dozens of times, ad nauseum  These are actually common to all cable news channels.   The content is mostly about events, polls, rumors.   Occasionally , there is actual news, like a train derails, or congress passes a bill – rare.   But this is just the filler placed between their favorite offerings, and those are  Opinions.    They come in non-dietetic quantities.  Lumping events, polls, and rumors into “news,”  fake and otherwise, we use the symbol “N.”  Symbolically, this means I/you get daily servings of OAN, or opinions about the news.  This is OK, but the stations, wanting to feed the frenzy of their viewers then move on to OAOAN, or opinions about the opinions about the news.  Som

Nowadays we see near riots in the streets, remarkably well-organized riots, spun off as spontaneous tornados or chaos.   One problem with creating the tornado is the thought that once set its outcome cannot be controlled.  Chaos is no mother's child.  The News.   Nowadays we see news celebrities that run their shows to celebrate their greatness, their self-confessed bullseye opinions, and their news omnipotence.  There is little traditional reporting.  We see an odd combination of opinion supported by news interpretations, interpolations, or selected truths contorted to support personal views.  But more, there is now a news royalty.  These are commentators that use their show to celebrate themselves.  Specifically, we have Bill O’Reilly (FOX) and Chris Matthews (MSNBC). Both regard their opinions as supreme and true.  Matthews seeks affirmation from his guests. O’Reilly corrects views    alternative  from his.   Both frequently interrupt guests far more intelligent than themse