The old and eternal question: What comes first? The egg or the hen? Forget about the rooster for a moment. He is busy announcing dawn.
Moral dilemma: You stand at the fish counter. Several fine specimens of the endangered on the slab. Do you buy because they are caught, dead and gutted already or do you have a cheese fondue tonight instead?
The press: The much maligned. What comes first: Supply or demand? People squeal over privacy, paparazzi. Well, Sweethearts, the bad news is that it’s you, the customer, who buys those papers. Who reads that which you will later complain about. That which feeds the inner monster craving a little more sensationalism, that which will satisfy you because your own lives are unblemished. Pull the other one. I freely admit that I do buy fish that’s already dead. I don’t read drivel. Even if it fills half the paper I pay good money for. What are fingers for if not to turn those pages which are of no consequences to anyone.
And, since you are asking, I don’t like Tom Cruise.
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Ah yes. Two schools of thought. The media (or businesses) are simply repsonding to the public versus the media (or businesses) are creating the perception the the public “needs” what they are selling. Which is it? If I were an economist (I’m not), I’d say the former; I’m a sociologist, so I vote that for the latter. Not always, but in large part. People tend to be easily hypnotized, especially when they are told that X,Y, or Z will improve their sorry lives.
Comment by Lorna's Voice — August 27, 2012 @ 22:21 |