I've been wondering about the blow-up over Brian Williams. And about why everybody and his uncle are jumping on this guy for having botched one story - yeah, OK, it was kind of a doozy, but c'mon. He fell into the "Acquired Memory" trap, and we're compelled to a public lynching?
And here's an interesting little wrinkle - he admitted it, and tried to correct the record long after everybody'd forgotten about it. When was the last time anybody - ANY-FUCKING-BODY - in the media decided to come clean like that?
We need to hold people accountable, but Coin-Operated Politicians and The Banksters (eg), and a pile of others who've screwed things up way bigger than anything a news reader ever did (DumFux News being the exception of course) - those guys are practically bulletproof, and we get pretty fucking frustrated about how it seems like they never get spanked or even yelled at. Then along comes a Dan Rather or a Brian Williams, and we lose our shit over it - because we're so pissed at the people we can't touch, we take it all out on the ones we can.
Press Poodles in general have a lot of shit to answer for - I just wanna make sure I'm mad at the right people for the right reasons.
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