The current Democratic race has got me seriously depressed. Two of the best candidates the Dems have had in years have become two of the candidates I'm most sick of hearing about because of the media's insistence on focusing on bullshit - I had to turn last week's debate off.
What are we talking about in the media now? the War? the Economy? of course not. The number one topic being covered by TV news in this campaign is the Jeremiah Wright controversy and believe me, I'm happy it broke now instead of in October, can you imagine?, but for God's sake, can we talk about the war again!?!
and can some one out there in the national news media PLEASE COVER the fact that
a. the Democrats don't have a realistic exit strategy out of Iraq (if they do, please e-mail it to me: tyler.jcksn@gmail.com)
and that
b. no one has a good and realistic economic plan?
who covers this? is there any journalist out there who has the expertise to cover what's happening in the economy and ask the candidates tough questions about what they're going to do when it goes belly up?
No, there isn't.
And for a guy like myself, a self-proclaimed and frustrated Bob Woodward wannabe, working in the local TV news is like being a state Senator when you wanna play with the big boys in DC -
all we ever get to cover at WTEN is the next great medical discovery, a shooting in a neighborhood only an idiot in this city would be stupid enough to go to and yet another Amber alert.
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Sorry that local news is such a drag.
Sorry that we try to cover what people care about, things that might save people's LIVES like Amber Alerts.
No, really, I'm sorry. It must be so hard for you, that you're not fulfilled. Because that's why news coverage exists, to fulfill YOUR existence.
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