Are we finally coming to our senses?
Posted by Jeremy Long on December 7, 2009
By now everyone has heard of the Tiger Woods “accident” and the couple that crashed Pres. Obama’s dinner.
Originally, I was going to blog about how ridiculous the coverage of the Tiger Woods story was. But I thought “Hey been there done that.” Check out the “Entertainment Media — Epic Fail” blog post.
If I were going to write about the Tiger Woods story it would have been easy. Just insert “Tiger” a couple times into the post.
Instead to make my triumphant return to the blogging community I decided to share with you two posts written by two people who “get it.” What’s it? “It” is — “Who gives a fuck who (insert famous person’s name) is (insert something ‘morally’ wrong) and why do we care?”
First I give you John Finger’s post over at Finger Food.
When I first read his post, I said “self, no need to write a post.” Finger hit the nail on the head.
Here’s a little snippet
Oh yes, ballplayers, crooners, stars, starlets, politicians and presidents went out, got into trouble and didn’t have to worry about reading about it the next day on TMZ because there was something different going on back then…
People had their own lives and didn’t need to borrow Frank Sinatra’s. They didn’t go crashing some party they weren’t invited to because that would be classless. Worse, it’s tacky.
And it’s true. Why are we so fascinated with who is banging who or who is driving drunk where?
Now I direct you to Rolling Stone national affairs correspondent Tim Dickinson and what he posted on Dec. 1
Listen: I understand that the atomization of our popular culture drives a need for “national conversation” news stories.
But Tiger Woods and the Afghanistan escalation received equal minutes on NPR this morning.
The Tiger episode epitomizes the Seinfeld ethos that has infected our 24/7 news cycle. We’re having endless national conversations about nothing.
And there you have it.
We care more about who Tiger Woods is banging then the escalating war in Afghanistan.
Ill be bold, probably a little ignorant, but say technology is to blame fore this problem.
We are a nation of convenience. Technology has made things convenient. So convenient, that we are spoon fed our news and take whatever is given to us as if it’s the word of God.
