Every night I read the headlines going into tomorrow’s news cycle and I’m amazed by the lack of investigation by the mainstream media, they would rather adopt stating the obvious and taking a side. Telling me it’s going to rain outside, when it’s already raining, is just not valuable information. Also trying to entice page-views by saying, it’s raining out and it has rained hard two days in a row is just hyperbole and obvious to most. Then we have tonight’s financial “shocking” news that the manufacturing industry will see a pull back in growth, something akin to the levels we saw back in 1946. Housing starts are at historical lows, unemployment numbers have reached record highs, small business will experience a difficult 2020, restaurants and hotels have been devastated during the first few months of 2020. Not being snarky, but if you weren’t aware of these headlines in your own head, or just by looking out the window of the shelter-in-place domicile you have been living in, then that rock that you’ve been living under has created a great shelter for you.
While we all are living sequestered lives, at a bare minimum I would hope the folks that get paid to “inform” us of provocative news which is based on their intrepid research, will begin to do what is expected. We want, or I’ll say even to go as far as to demand the information that is typically reserved to media-credentialed individuals provided as “news”. Don’t tell us about something we already know, especially with your opinion wrapped around it. More importantly, tell us how the government, industry or other channels are working to right the ship. However, if this goes beyond the expectation of our media professionals, then we are left to re-write the obvious to meet a stance that makes the audience complacent and uninterested in “your” breaking news.
Bottomline, we should be asking and expecting more from our media professionals, I’ll get opinion and sound bites from Twitter.
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