CNN interviewed Caitlyn Jenner. In a saner world, and being a former standup comedian, the previous statement should be a setup for a joke. It’s not. It happened.
For those of you who are intelligent enough to stay in the dark, let me drag you into the mud with the rest of us.
In other words, Caitlyn Jenner is polling only 1% ahead of me for Governor of California, and I reside in Israel. Who was the person at CNN that said, “Forget about relevance…let’s get eyeballs!”?
And you know what? He or she or they were right. The topic quickly trended on Twitter, and suddenly it was no longer about an irrelevant candidate. It was about CNN getting hundreds of thousands of clicks.
Biden is sinking…
In the last few days, in spite of President Biden doing a superhuman job in getting the United States out of Afghanistan, not giving up on the morons who won’t get a vaccine or wear a mask, trying to improve Americans’ lives by way of infrastructure and stopping climate change, and actually getting out of an airplane to survey damage caused by natural disasters, his ‘poll numbers have dipped’.
They’ve dipped to the point where The Former Guy could have only dreamed of getting himself. But that doesn’t matter.
Richard Stengel, of MSNBC, is absolutely right. Despite the fact that Biden accomplished what the four previous Administrations promised to do and failed, does not make good copy. That kind of positive reporting would never fly on ANY of the REAL HOUSEWIVES OF… shows.
As much as the public complains about bad news, if they didn’t have complaints, they’d have nothing at all. People click on the bad news. They love the bad news.
Remember the TV show, “America’s Funniest Home Videos”? It was all documentation of catastrophes….and then came Twitter and Tik Tok to make it available for everyone to participate.
The usual suspects…
Greg Abbott is a murderous sociopath. So is Ron DeSantis. And then there’s Marjorie Taylor Greene, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz…oh, who are we kidding…the Republican Party. But it’s them and Fox News who know something that Democrats refuse to grasp. People will click on, watch, search out: fear, bad news, disaster, racism, homophobia…the list is endless, and none of it includes good news or hope.
We weren’t rid of it when Donald Trump gave the bottom feeders permission to crawl out from underneath the rock, and he lost the House, Senate, and White House. He released the Kraken. The evil genie is out of the bottle.
I would love to say that the answer is to not watch CNN. Don’t do business with Texas. Get a replacement for Chuck Todd. But that won’t happen. Instead of the news media giving the majority of the people what they want, they now cater to the minority maniacs on Social Media. Clicks are easy to track.
There might be an answer…
If you still believe in the goodness of MAN, then maybe you can get behind this:
On the other hand…the above Tweet received 1,271 Likes.
And on the OTHER hand, this Tweet received over 8,000.
Go figure.
Spot on. 1000%. My thoughts exactly.
Spot on. 1000%.