Talk radio doesn't represent America
My friend Bill Glauber and photographer Melanie Stetson Freeman travel from Plymouth Rock to the Grand Canyon for the Christian Science Monitor. They find that Americans don't hate themselves, don't hate each other and are optimistic better times will come. Who knew?
Listen to America on talk radio, cable television, and the Internet, and you think that we are a people who shout, who boil over with us-versus-them anger, who think the worst of one another, instead of the best.The truth is far different.
This is a journey in an America after the stock market crash and the housing bust, amid soaring unemployment, where people deal with hard times the best they can.
It's an America of hope.
And ultimately, we'll come to discover, it's an America largely at peace with itself.
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Why can't they also say that mainstream media doesn't represent America either? The majority of American's are middle-of-the-road, NOT left-leaning liberals (or right-wingers, as the media presents talk radio or Fox news).
The media is supposed to report the news, not slant the news to fit their agenda.
That is why I listen to talk radio, watch Fox, MSNBC, and CNN, so that I can try to get the true picture. I shouldn't have to, but that is how it is.
Posted by: Cosmos Girl I>--I | July 13, 2009 9:31 AM
The writer says Talk Radio is decisive but then he parrots what Rush Limbaugh says every day. America is a great country because of its people and the ideals they stand for.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051608/content/01125109.guest.html
Posted by: Dan | July 13, 2009 10:01 AM
Americans are oblivious. They are not informed by the media and cannot think for themselves. It was apparent to me that a bubble was being generated in housing. Bubbles don't burst nicely, so I was out of the market long before the implosion. Yet, we are still being told about the 'unforeseeable' problem. Baloney! It was generated in order to steal the wealth of the middle class by the ulta-wealthy thru the bailouts.
Posted by: mapuser | July 13, 2009 10:37 AM
Thought there certainly is an element of obliviousness out there (too often a too large element), the disconnect between the perspectives about us that I'm noticing is the same one so eloquently described by K in the now classic film "Men In Black":
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it." -K
The herd/pack mentality and directed GroupThink are a very dangerous combination.
Posted by: Anonymous | July 13, 2009 11:00 AM
Thought there certainly is an element of obliviousness out there (too often a too large element), the disconnect between the perspectives about us that I'm noticing is the same one so eloquently described by K in the now classic film "Men In Black":
"A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it." -K
The herd/pack mentality and directed GroupThink are a very dangerous combination.
Posted by: MrRational | July 13, 2009 11:00 AM
It just doesn't represent the liberal views that you get from the biased newspapers and three major networks.
Posted by: Evenup | July 14, 2009 8:34 AM
Evenup, the thing that most media outlets have in common (cable, network, talk radio) is that being angry about something is extremely en vogue. I'm just disappointed that American media ignores great swaths of world events and national perspectives in favor of whatever topic I should be most outraged about, on any given day.
Bi-partisan anger: making America great since the 1960s!
Posted by: Laura | July 15, 2009 11:33 AM