The degradation of the word

Up front I instinctively blamed the poor state of news media reporting on the feminization of the media. Then a light bulb went on! The poor state applies to the young women and men who are in the business today. For lack of knowing what to do, they do what they know. And it is not much. Out of respect I will even give this “generic” group respect for hard work and good intentions. I will also say they have been shafted so badly by their educators and hirers who have imparted their generation’s poor standards. By 2020 many will ask “do you want fries with your order?” What a shame.

Of course there are alternatives. The consolidation of news assemblage in the BBC is a good hint. Many hope there is a union revolt to the change, and the whole shebang goes under, with others to pick up the best parts. In the USA one obvious alternative is just to report the news, investigative invigorated. What a beautiful thought!

One future business model which will probably succeed is “just the news”. If the alternative is between repeating the news, and making up the news, most Americans will financially support the news, often boring, and repeated over and over. What is presently sad is the poor state of foreign knowledge and reporting, and in this we Americans are still on our own as to learning. Fortunately, we still have “posters” from foreign lands and conflicts, and can use our own judgment about their values and reports.

It’s a new world, but the value of believing or not what ever one reads or sees is still as old as time.