What just happened?

I try to watch the news everyday but where is it?  I feel like the news has succumbed to a social media event rather than detailing actual events.  They seem to create the news for us and why?  Isn’t there enough real out there to report on?

After watching the love fest between the media and our president yesterday during his first lame duck presentation, I began to wonder what the media was all about.  Where are the hard hitting reporters who feel the need to protect the public from ….everything?  Lois Lane is gone and she has been replaced by a sycophant.

I grew up listening to Walter Cronkite who held no allegiances with any organization or politico and reported the news with dignity and respect but it was truthful.   All of the news today is like Wikipedia; a conglomeration of opinion with no fact checking until it’s too late.  When did Facebook become the model for the Today Show?

We can probably agree that the news media is more of an entertainment industry now, vying for ratings as the chief issue, rather than respectful and insightful reporting; but why did this happen?  Are we merely interested in being voyeurs rather than intelligentsia?

I spend my retirement day searching for real unadulterated (pun intended) news and do you know where I find it?  I find it more on YouTube than on mainstream media environments.  Of course I have to skip over the many people trying to achieve stardom but there are undiluted videos of world events as taken by the participants on site in world news events.  But trying to find real news on YouTube is like trying to find books from the Library of Congress that have been dumped on the floor; its challenging at best.

I am tired of the starlet and coiffured news of today and long for the real news of yesterday.  Now I am not unaware of the filtered news of the past; controlled by politicians but when real news occurred; I could at least trust the reporter to try his best.  And let me say this is not just an age thing that I am older and want to see older reporters because each station has their version of the older reporter for suit my eyes; it has to do with reporting integrity which seems to have slipped into the nether region of today’s media (pun intended again, sorry.)