Todd Boss

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This is a great piece by former Dateline NBC correspondent John Hockenberry about exactly what’s gone wrong with television news. Namely, that they try to attract viewers with entertainment at the expense of actual news.

From the article:

“Sometimes entertainment actually drove selection of news stories. Since Dateline was the lead-in to the hit series Law & Order on Friday nights, it was understood that on Fridays we did crime.”

The US government is spending $1.5 billion of our taxes to make sure that we can all remain sufficiently passive in front of our prolefeed. Meanwhile, the national debt is $9 trillion and growing…