Friday, January 26, 2024

Regarding Television News Programs

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People watch TV news programs
because they want to
keep informed and be aware of
current events

That paragraph is
so simple and common
it must be the truth
 
Right?
 
Yes
No
 
Superficially
it is 100% correct
but let us look 
below the surface
 
Understand this simple reality:
 the condition
of this world of ours
is devastatingly horrible
+
 understand the German word
 
We now have 
the swimming gear
to get beneath the surface
of why we watch 
televison news
behind the locked doors
of our homes

There is joy in the fact
that however bad 
our day was
the news will tell us
of someone/somewhere
who had it much worse
and it is no curse to think
"better them than us"

YES
our news programs do inform
 
HOWEVER
 each news program
has many salaries to pay
plus executives
with noses buried in 
the bottom line:
 
the newscasters
must succeed in 
heightening our anxieties
so that we will
reach into our wallets
and find money 
to spend
on this, that, or
the other thing

It doesn't matter
what we spend it on
because it is a proven
scientific fact
that the higher our anxieties,
the more freely
our money will 
be spent
 
Unless, of course,
we never unlock our doors
and never go anywhere

© OLIVERIO ©
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