And what if we a were all to answer (breathlessly) ‘I Love it. Can’t get enough?’ Would the Gob and Flail then devote more space yet to this pathetic celebrity gazing phenomena that our society has managed to sleaze into?
Giving the common public what it wants is not necessarily a noble and educating thing to do. Given that our society is becoming illiterate and graduating morons, maybe it would behove the mainstream media to awaken to the crisis in this country of anti-intellectualism and start giving its readership that which it desperately needs: Real debate, thoughtful and well researched articles. And more space for readers to participate in the dialogue.
The common media across the board in this country, including the public-owned CBC, are all guilty of elitism and their own brand of pseudo-intellectualism while people of real intellectual drive, a thirst for enlightenment and an expectation of emancipated debate all suffer for this weary approach to journalism which focuses on the tawdry and amoral lives of a few unhappy freaks we have catapulted into a stellar social status.
When the Gob and Flail can’t even acknowledge honestly its own descent into celebrity worship (“It seems the media are paying more attention…”) , then it becomes the role of the bloggers and cyber-scribes to pick up the slack and offer the red meat of investigative journalism, the juice of revolutionary thinking. And we attempt to do this without the vast resources of corporate advertising and subsidies.
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