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What's Wrong With Keith Olbermann

By Wilson Blair

12 February, 2010
ITHP.org

A disturbing trend has developed within the cable “news” establishment. Commentators on “news” shows are spending less time discussing the major events of the day and are instead dedicating a significant amount of time to trashing other networks and other hosts. Everyone from Bill O’Reilly to Chris Matthews is guilty of this, but Keith Olbermann takes it to a new extreme. What Bill O’Reilly or Sean Hannity says on a given day is meaningless and unimportant. Covert bombing campaigns in Yemen and assaults on personal liberty at home are what we should be hearing about. Yet this is not what we are getting from the major news networks. They are instead filling their shows with the irrelevant. When news networks pass off meaningless jabs as news, the democratic citizen loses.

What is causing this decay in the news establishment? A reasonable explanation may be that news shows who specialize in this democracy destroying sport of reporting the irrelevant get the best ratings and therefore make their corporate masters the greatest profits. In that case, there is no one to blame but us for so readily consuming this garbage.

Whether you agree with him or not, Keith Olbermann is entertaining. And that makes him all the more dangerous. There is nothing more threatening to the survival of freedom in America than the legions of Countdown and Daily Show watchers who believe themselves to be informed citizens. You don’t become informed by being entertained. You become informed through self-motivation, self-restraint and a commitment to independent thought.

Entertainment and news are completely incompatible. When entertainment is fused with news, and it is taken seriously, the viewer does not become better informed. They instead become more malleable to the agenda promoted by media conglomerates. This agenda may be as harmless as trying to attract viewers to grow profits or it may be much more malicious. Distraction from the real issues and misinformation are either by products of profit seeking or are in place by design. There is no better way to impose your way of thinking on a people than to trick them into thinking they are getting the whole story when in actuality they are blind to the reality around them.

Keith Olbermann uses big words, wears smart looking glasses, and talks with a contagious self-righteousness. You can’t help but feel you can trust him to tell you what you need to hear. Don’t fall into this trap. RESIST THE ENTERTAINMENT-MEDIA COMPLEX. Remove yourself from the laughing, amused sheep as they are led off the cliff of tyranny by the shepherds of General Electric, News Corp, and Time Warner.

Wilson Blair is part-time writer and business man from Seattle, WA. He began writing for independent Seattle publications in the early 80's and currently continues his writing. He is employed at a Seattle based hedge fund and works closely with big names in international business. Despite Blair's drive for money he still believes that corporations often exploit people and we often seem to be their loyal slaves. Mr. Blair naturally attempts to dissolve the stereo-types of successful businessmen though his ethical moral standards and reputation in the Seattle community and abroad.

This article was originally published on ITHP.org. Wilson Blair has requested that it be spread thoughout the web but credit still be given to the International Human Press.



 

 


 

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