What's on the news?

I have been exposed to Television the last couple of nights. I could not help but flip through the so called news stations and was shocked when I did. With all the major events taking place, there was absolutely nothing of substance being covered, none of it was being talked about in a meaningful way or at all. Locally in America with the FED, the economy and with the scandals in DC, nor much meaningful talk about major global matters.

Okay, I will grant you the fact that a major part of the new health-care act delay is significant, I think we can all agree in light of recent events the fact that the IRS being a major player in collecting data regarding the new health-care law is important. 

So what is the media reporting?

Not worthy of coverage, the Trayvon Martin trial with several stations holding panels to waste our time talking about it, 99% of the immigration debate, and all of the talk about Edward Snowden rather than the information he has brought to light, a plane accident, etc.

I am distracted by the meaningless noise surrounding me. I find myself forming opinions and feeling the desire to talk to people about things I don't care about, but why? Who cares about this superficial fluff? I am going to do my best not to address issues that do not merit attention, and I urge you all to do the same.

Will talk about:
Libor scandal!
Fast and Furious!
Going into Libya
Benghazi (while connected to Libya, two separate issues)
IRS
NSA
The incredible fragile and unsustainable US economy
and more...

Will not talk about:
Immigration
Racial distractions
Abortion
Celebrities
Bad legislation proposed that is not likely to pass
Gay marriage
drugs
Religion
and more...

  Updated: 7/19/2013

All of the mainstream media is adverting tomorrow's protests. Where was the media to help advertise the protests against Monsanto? Even after massive protests, there was hardly any coverage of the large protests. Most people are unaware what Monsanto is or even that there is an issue at all.

Matters that unite people and effect all of us are not well covered, while problems that divide us and affect only a handful of people are highlighted and injected into our news-stream. The mainstream media forces us all to be affected by matters that otherwise have no effect on us. 

We do not as a society decide what is important to discuss; instead, we are told what to talk about and what to care about. We are allowed to take the side and feel however we want about what we are told to speak of, as long as we talk about what they want us too.

“The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.”

― Noam Chomsky