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Friday Night News Dump

I love it when folks get all lathered up about big news getting dumped on the media on a Friday night. These folks must be pulling at their fingers, and pacing back and forth, and frothing and mishandling themselves, and all for what? What constititutes their indignation is that Americans aren't paying attention. They fail to realize that Americans don't want to pay attention. It's Friday Night for Peggy Noonan's sake!

This is a telling sign of the American condition, not some statement about the current failures of the American media. In other words, people don't care. It's as simple as that.

If a news report came out on a Tuesday morning that said, "Jailers splashed Koran with urine - Pentagon", then yes, we might have some media attention and maybe even some informed punditry weighing in, but the reality is, Tuesday morning or Friday night, Americans are not politcally aware and will continue to be that way. Blissfully so.

Political Junkies have to start realizing that well over 51% (or 78%) of the U.S. population doesn't even bother with which way the political winds blow. (note to self)

Our citizenry has become so completely indifferant to the politics and governance that bind our republic together that they figure it will always be there, completely unaware, or worse yet, willfully ignorant, that the whole structure is crumbling right under our feet.

posted by FuzzFinger @ 6/03/2005 11:59:00 PM