Latest Health Care Flap Shows Media at its Most Boring - By Matt Taibbi
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2014 Feb 7, 3:13am 811 views 2 comments
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Ceffer
2014 Feb 7, 3:23am
Ceffer
2014 Feb 7, 3:23am
Well, Rolling Stone, that's why we have sex, drugs, 'n rocker rollers, to maintain intellectual standards.
With the Dems screaming in one ear and the Repubs in the other, we need some delirious head banging entertainment to dull the pain.
God gave us two parties because we only have two ears to scream in.
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Tenpoundbass
2014 Feb 7, 3:39am
Tenpoundbass
2014 Feb 7, 3:39am
It's the same kind of boring that prevents all but the most desperate from getting off with bots in chat rooms.
You know I can hear you.
There's a reason why people hate politics in this country. Or, at least, a reason they hate reading about it: It's boring.
It's the same kind of boring that prevents all but the most desperate from getting off with bots in chat rooms. When you want to interact with a human being, and get a machine instead, it's pretty much always a disappointment.
Yet this is the way our political media is delivered. Every new news item goes through a mechanized process, traveling through a flow chart designed to break down all information into one of just two types of product: meat for Republican readers, and meat for Democrat readers. Nobody else gets to eat. And even if you don't mind one or the other, nobody can stand the same meal a million days in a row. It's the numbing sameness and predictability that makes you crazy, as the latest flap over Obamacare proves once again.
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/latest-health-care-flap-shows-media-at-its-most-boring-20140206
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