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Watching The News Makes You Impotent!!!
That’s the kind of formerly tabloid-only headline that is now used to draw in the frightened and the curious by the increasingly desperate TV news shows, magazines, and newspapers. They’re desperate because they’re literally fighting for their life, cable networks like MSNBC and especially the newspapers who have seen their readership decline sharply. They “blame” the fact that people are getting more and more of their information from the internet but they don’t seem to realize that people are still listening to the radio and they don’t understand why people are turning away from their media.
The truth is that merely watching the news makes you feel impotent. The world comes pouring into your home through the TV screen showing you horrific images of what’s wrong with the world, your world, including those of dear, sweet people and dear, sweet animals and important sacred sites and the environment that gives us all life and the message is loud and clear: Your very life and the lives of those you love are in serious peril and unless you learn what is going on you won’t be able to save yourself. And it may be too late and it may be that there's nothing you can do.
But not only doesn’t the media give you enough information to know what is going on, they have the suicidal audacity to tell you at the end of every story and every show to go to their website to find more information, that’s really all the information that you tuned into them for in the first place! And we all know what happens once you start websurfing – you leave their website and head for parts unknown because the computer is the greatest information tool the world has ever known and it makes you realize how primitive and time wasting the old media of TV and newspapers and magazines really are.
And that’s where the impotence comes in. Because they don't give you any way to DO SOMETHING to save yourself, your loved ones and the world. The reason that I get my information from the internet is because it allows me to control the horrific intensity of the “If it bleeds, it leads” newsroom mentality that is turning so many people off to TV news but it also enables me – no, it literally empowers me to DO SOMETHING about what I learn about while TV, newspapers and magazines leave you sitting there feeling totally impotent. They’ve shown and told you about what’s wrong but they leave it up to you to figure out what, if anything, you should do about righting the wrongs they have brought into your home from around the world. They’ve dumped the world’s garbage on your living room floor and told you to clean it up. They’ve saddened you, maddened you and then abandoned you without the slightest hint about what you can do about any of it. They even snicker when they mention the very idea of writing your government officials, possibly because they’ve just done a story revealing your government officials as a bunch of venal toadies more interested in raising campaign cash than healthy and productive citizens.
Case in point, I was brought to tears of rage and caring by a photo on the Drudge Report of two frightened, emaciated, and sick to blindness (one of them) and almost to death (both of them) cheetah cubs who had been discovered by the U.S. Army’s anti-terrorism force in Ethiopia chained by an 8-inch rope and forced to fight each other for the amusement of the local subhumans in Gode, Ethiopia, yet another horrible, dirty, impoverished, nearly uninhabitable place inhabited by way too many people especially men who deny women their basic human rights and, therefore, force them into having way too many children. Africa is a particularly egregious violator of women’s rights and so they have seven children per woman, on average, and they wonder why there is poverty, violence and famine. The Associated Press photographer actually photographed the hotel owner who had bought these poor cubs, in the act of hitting them, after two of his many children, emulating their idiot father, were dragging the cubs by their tails. These two cubs had almost human faces of agony on them. It made my Brooklyn-born blood boil and had I been able to get my hands on that hotel owner he would not have been able to tie his shoe laces anymore, let alone re-tie those two frightened babies to their tortuous tether.
But even the internet websites don’t live up to their potential, they leave it to us, just like the old world media services. Although Fox News’ website also had the cubs’ story, the search hyperlinks that they and the other web news outlets sometimes provide are usually linked to ads and fee-based look up services. Even Drudge didn’t tell me what to do, I had to Google the Ethiopian Ambassador’s website and the www.Cheetah.org charity that eventually coordinated the cubs’ just-in-time rescue.
When the people act, they get action. The world outcry raised by the story embarrassed the Ethiopian government to get off their Haile Sellassies and take these poor babies away from that averagely backward citizen and allow the US Army to fly them over the roadless wasteland to the capital and the rest of their lives spent recovering at the palace of the former emperor. Stories like this only reinforce my belief that Africa is critically overpopulated and undereducated and more in need of democracy for all, especially women, than the Middle East. I still hope that someone teaches a serious lesson to that hotel owner who abused the cubs and to the poachers who kill cheetahs and other animals and/or steal their cubs to sell to Saudi Arabia, another gang of woman-hating subhumans, in my humble opinion. Call me a racist, but I will never agree that anyone anywhere has the right to enslave another person, even if their “culture” permits or, in most cases, encourages it. And I don’t care what is said by the captives who’ve bonded with their captors, like the women of Islam, for example. There’s a term for this psychological condition, it’s called Stockholm Syndrome, after the hostages in Stockholm whose dependence on their captors caused these poor confused captives to identify with their captors and try to protect them following their release.
The media ignores the story of DO SOMETHING at their peril. Unless they use their power to empower the people who buy their services, they will not attract anyone to them. No one needs them anymore for the purpose for which they were originally created. They have to evolve from media into mediums, mediums for change. They used to be indispensable but now they are totally disposable and so they have to make themselves at least useful before they can become indispensable again. The only way for any one show or any of the media to distinguish itself from the rest is to empower their customers to DO SOMETHING about what is being told to them. This is why radio survives and thrives.
The radio host is talking to you, or so it seems. They take callers and you get to listen. You get to think about what is happening because it is happening right in front of you. The radio show is the event, partially, not just the event that is being discussed. You are not alone, either in your impotence or your beliefs. And you don’t feel so bad because you can’t actually see the carnage and the devastation the way you can on other media, especially TV.
Watching the news makes you impotent, but it doesn’t have to be this way. I’ve written to a few people in the media about my DO SOMETHING ideas for their survival but they don’t seem to want to DO SOMETHING about it. Maybe that is a kind of genetic programming that will result in their TV programming disappearing from the earth in the same way as the other organisms that failed to adapt and evolve.
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