How Superficial has Our Culture Become?

[AKaiser]

"He only saved a billion people... "



Alter: How Superficial Has Our Culture Become? - Newsweek Between the Lines - MSNBC.com

 

[DCreed]

never heard of him either. But we all know who Paris Hilton is, go figure!

 

[AKaiser]

never heard of him either. But we all know who Paris Hilton is, go figure!

Well, Grandpa Hilton kicked her sorry butt off the Hilton Feedtrough, along with all her other family members. He did the right thing, and put it to good use in charity.

 

[bighammer]

I sure wish the news had more of that kind of content. The nightly news reports have turned into Entertainment Tonight because it sells.

 

[Boomer II]

Yeah but LiLo is back in rehab!!!!!

 

[fest3er]

Superficial? That might not be the right word. Rude, selfish and arrogant might be a better descriptor. If a person doesn't constantly talk over others and drown them out, denigrate their ideas whilst promoting his own, and constantly bray about himself, then he will be summarily ignored. Quiet, hardworking, team-oriented people get the manure-coated end of the stick. Loud, boorish people people get the attention and, as a result, set the examples.

Today's culture has grown out of the selfishness of the '80s and '90s, which grew out of the free-love culture of the '60s and '70s. Today's media people are rude, loud, overbearing and arrogant; they can only hear others who are like themselves, and they are too important to listen to the quiet ones. In fact, today's media people are more important than the information and events they are supposed to be reporting.

Television news would be far better if the talking head was anonymous or rotated among the reporting staff. Then the focus would be on the story, not the reporter, and not the anchor. A marquee name is no measure of integrity. I'd be willing to bet that Chevy Chase ranks with the best of the news anchors of the last 25 years.

In the end, though, the quiet ones like Borlaug will be remembered long after the boors like Hilton, Jackson and their ilk have been forgotten.

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[bmoeller]

Loud, boorish people people get the attention and, as a result, set the examples.

Too true. That is why the tree huggers get the EPA to follow their whim and junk science. Well that, and lining someone's pocket.

Today's culture has grown out of the selfishness of the '80s and '90s, which grew out of the free-love culture of the '60s and '70s.

I think every generation has had that problem, to some extent. The way information moves so quickly now, it is more well known. Almost instant news with the internet and still have television and radio.

Today's media people are rude, loud, overbearing and arrogant; they can only hear others who are like themselves, and they are too important to listen to the quiet ones. In fact, today's media people are more important than the information and events they are supposed to be reporting.

The media only thinks they are more important than they really are. They only parrot all of the same drivel that is handed out from the "powers that be". Liberal media is all the same.

A marquee name is no measure of integrity.

Dan Rather, are you listening?