As a challenge to myself, I’ll try to write this without any interjected, direct political opinions on my part. It’s going to be tough, yet doable.
I’ve been watching with great interest the amount of misspent money that the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, has uncovered thus far. There are promises of more disclosures.
As a taxpayer, I want my tax money spent wisely, as do most wise Americans. I commend Elon Musk for taking this job, especially as head of DOGE. Fiscal conservative Democrats and Republicans alike, including Independents, should feel the same here.
Each evening on the evening news, there seems to always be a group of complainers voicing their disapproval of what Musk and his highly efficient team of unpaid nerds are doing. On occasion, they sing their disapproval through protest songs in off-key voices. These horrible singers make my singing sound good.
Word on the street is that Elon’s team is comprised of 19-year-old computer whizzes. I recall a statement from over 50 years ago in high school, made by a teacher of mine, claiming that nerds will someday be our bosses. That statement rings truer than ever these days.
The following is a hypothetical situation — one that easily explains how I now view our United States where television and cable news is concerned
Suppose there were only two channels to watch. One of them is called TRUTH while the other is labeled HITS. Truth contains exactly as its name implies, everything truthful. Hits on the other hand is censored, and oftentimes more than not, it’s highly biased news reporting.
Newscasters on Truth don’t deviate from the facts, although the reporters are sometimes a bit dry around the collar, with no tasteless jokes or off-the-cuff derogatory remarks.
There’s also limited bias on Truth, with them also trying to follow the age-old guideline, “If you can’t say anything good about someone, don’t say anything at all.”
Entertainment is not a big part of Truth, although they occasionally have special guests such as retired military personnel or sports stars. Chic or hip news stories about what’s happening in Hollywood never make this channel. The late Walter Cronkite is a good example of a Truth newscaster.
Hits is just the opposite. News reporters on this station often criticize those that they personally disagree with, going so low as to call them hurtful names or make fun of their families, even small children. Brian Williams fits the Hits mold perfectly where their style of reporting is concerned.
Oftentimes, left-leaning music stars or rap artists will appear as guests on Hits with them occasionally performing to entertain those watching. Guests on Hits are open to making wisecrack remarks, with the hosts laughing along.
If breaking news surfaces that doesn’t fit with the owner of Hits’ ideological agenda, that factual information is either not reported, misrepresented, or falsely labeled as sexist, racist, or homophobic.
Where viewer numbers are concerned, logic would dictate that people wanting to know the facts would far outweigh those desiring nothing more than fake and entertaining news.
That doesn’t hold true though, with a majority 55% of those tuning in, opting for Truth, over a still very solid 45% for Hits. Viewership is still very close. Go figure?
My hypothetical example seems to be the way it is today, with a good many viewers still tuning in to mainstream media, even though it’s been proven all three channels contain tainted or biased reporting on stories, especially those regarding a certain president sitting in the Oval Office.
The consensus that I got after talking with several Havasu residents and visitors, is that they agree with Donald Trump and Elon Musk in auditing government agencies. I didn’t ask about their political affiliation.
Showing this incomplete article to my wife, hoping to get ideas on where to still go with things, or end it, Joleen caught something that I missed. Asking if Hits was a catchy name, intended as cryptic, I didn’t know what she meant? Hits is just a name that I pulled out of the sky and equated to catchy or entertaining news.
“Hits,” she said, “Is an acronym for heads in the sand!” Hearing that statement, my wife couldn’t have come up with a better ending.
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