Media biz as usual in the wake of the French horror
show. Save your time and do your Sat.
cleaning, you can predict what is being said:
1)
Fox is castigating Obama for playing into “their”
hands and advocating dumping our national budget in the security agencies’
coffers to ward off the threat of Islamic extremists, who are on their way here!!!
2)
Alyson Camerota crossed over to CNN and is asking
guests if the staff of Charlie Hebdo were
not aware of being “provocative” publishing “incendiary” cartoons. This was
being asked all over—and why the French think we’re wimps.
3)
NPR played it intellectual with a discussion of
American self-censorship and pointing out the history of the Catholic Church in
Europe has resulted in greater suspicion
of religion on the continent.
Actually, a guest on Fox News got closest. She referenced her
Ph.D. thesis, that discovered Paris is full of Algerian neighborhoods, with
young people who cannot find decent jobs and end up finding religion.
She wouldn’t dare articulate the real issue either:
Capitalism is great at raising expectations, but hourly getting lousier at
fulfilling them, as companies use technology to replace workers and more desperate
ones flood in. Hyper birthrates in dictatorships with little water and too many
humans send us/Europe their excess. Mr. Obama wants to make them all citizens
and in December wages went down again.
It
certainly doesn’t take a Critical Eye to see something has to give, and it’s no
surprise the problem continues, but it would help if elected officials could analyze reality.
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