There was an album by REM about a decade ago titled, "Automatic for The People." I always liked the title, but cannot remember much about the songs in it. Recently as I have configured several blogs, The Evansville Observer, and her sister blog, The Minnesota Observer to RSS feed to handle national news feeds, I have observed that the news media has followed the path of AM radio of years ago, where we could hear Wolfman Jack syndicated through many radio stations around America and never know where he really was. Today we can read automated news stories and never really know much more ----like whether the facts in the stories are really CORRECT.
That point was make clear to me last week when I posted some minutes from Orfordville and only Grumps pointed out to me that the minutes were from 2004 and where not recent. I had not noticed....having gone to a robotlike clip and paste mode myself.
Gone are the days of Edward R Murrow---It is not Good night and Good Luck any More. It is more like "Tough Luck." There are no writers that are paid for, or at least what they were years ago and there are not fact checkers---Only maybe "Grumps" and "Wolfman Jack" remain.
We are on Automatic----and not FOR the People. But AGAINST the People.
So. Maybe we need to be a little less reliant on Windows--of any version and just open the window and get some fresh air. And maybe taking a little time to check the transcript of the audio or the video might produce some surprise as to the accuracy of the stories we think are so easy to digest.
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