After years of mind-numbing boredom, there are shows out that people finally want to watch. Shows about people, people who love people, and people who love dogs, and cats.News programs, which were hardest hit during the 90's "Yellow Journalism Epoch" where one couldn't tell the real from the false, are coming out of the woodwork, but with one difference. In the past they would be accustomed to sporting falsified news to garner attention for their constituents, the bigwigs in Washington, DC. Now it's a different story.
One reporter claims, "We don't even bother concealing that the news is fiction now, because people aren't interested in reality, but reality-as-such; or, in laymen's terms, fiction." Many news stations have reported on this story, but have changed the names titles, names and plots to suit the ends of market share spin doctors.
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In the NY Times, they reported that media conglomeration is at an all time high, where more and more media outlets (TV & Radio stations, newspapers, and magazines) are owned by fewer and fewer corporations.
"We think this is great," said William E. Kovacic, chairman of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. "While a few whiners are demanding we halt this growing monopolization of media, it really means less work for us, so we're all for it!"
The U.S. Department of Justice, however, has taken a slightly different tack. "Our church publishes a newsletter for its members," said Ms. Wanda Johnson, secretary of the Grace First Holy Baptismal Congregation of Hemet, CA. "I was cranking the mimeograph machine when these scary looking people in black uniforms took all our fluid, the machine, and all our paper." Pastor John Swanson, leader of the GFHBC, continued, "We've asked repeatedly what the bail amount is for Wanda, but they just tell us to check back later. We're not even sure what the charges are!"
Under the new Obama regime, newsletter publishers from all walks of life are trembling in fear, awaiting the next governmental/corporate takeover.
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