Newspapers
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Once a month or so, some idiot old newspaper sports writer writes something retarded, so I send him an email full of f-bombs because I know the f-word makes old people cry.
Generally, I don't write to people who are just wrong, I write to people who denigrate stuff just because it's on the internet, or who condescend to the medium. Amazingly, this happens all the time, even though these farts are writing on the internet themselves. No sense of hypocrisy whatsoever.
Today was Murray Chass, and it occurred to me that I can't wait for newspaper sports sections to fold, but that they probably wouldn't do so until the entire newspaper failed, and honestly, I don't care. I'm sure there are things I'd miss, but no one's bothering to make them clear to me. Like, the Boston Globe? Fuck it. The New York Times? Who cares?
I hate the news. Like, it doesn't fucking matter in the volume that we produce and consume it. The news that matters could be covered in like, 800 words a day, with maybe 500 words on actionable news along the lines of 'I-95 is a clusterfuck, and bring in the shit on your porch because it's going to be windy, and there's a vote on repaving Forest Ave. tonight.' There's way too much fucking bullshit, and I don't care if it goes away.
At best you are left with an amusing bit of trivia, good for trading in cocktail party chatter or solving a crossword puzzle, but nothing more.
This is Neil Postman on the news, and he's right. Don't talk to me about democracy or whatever, because no one fucking reads anymore so reporting doesn't help. But newspapers? Holy shit, screw newspapers.
posted by henry |
1/21/2010 11:37:00 AM|
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