Robert Kimball Shinkoskey

U.S. media simply a 'soap opera Goliath'

Editor,

Let’s see, there’s climate change, the U.S. military “pivot” to Asia, the national deficit, not to mention the overall decline and almost certain death of the rule of law in the American republic. But the mainstream print and electronic media can think of nothing else to report for the past several weeks than a college football player’s fake long-distance girlfriend.

Entertaining the plebians in Roman America

While the world burns with revolution, radiation, and recession, the corporate world and its electronic media puppets numb Americans with mindless entertainment and celebrity soul-sucking designed to render them bereft of intellect and feeling.

If viewers in Grand Rapids want to be more engaged in local democratic processes, television shows like the long-running Survivor series won't let them.

The show brazenly promotes a primitive social setting of tribal alliances like that long-ago were abandoned by democratic civilizations, so viewers will find constitutional citizenship and ethical behavior strange and uninteresting.

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