The Most Brilliant Woman in the World
In 1938, totally as Halloween entertainment, Orson Welles did an audio version of the H.G. Wells' novel The War of the Worlds. The broadcast scared a few folks who thought it was real news.
And from that time until January 2020, broadcast news has been king and king maker as well public confessional and warning prophet. Remember the Y2K debacle? The world was ending all because somebody tried to save some space on hard drives by shortening dates. My own (now ex) husband thought I was going to disappear with my data the night of the changeover. I believe he was disappointed I was still there on Jan 1, 2000.
For some time I've been writing about the FLOTSAM* spewed by all the news agencies I've listed as part of the #CrunkNewsNetwork. But until this January of the year of our Lord 2020, these agencies still had some clout — or so they had us believe.
Remember when to make the news the standard was "If it bleeds, it leads"?
Now that standard is "If it scares, we care".
To show how much they care, they will beat a story to death even if it isn't true.
But the coronavirus killed off any remaining gravitas MSNBC and CNN — and any other agency that emulates them — may have had.
Stick a fork in them. They're done.
Together, MSNBC and CNN have done everything in their power to start a panic about the coronavirus but nothing is happening. It is now public knowledge they've lost all potency in the market, not to mention any legitimacy they may have had.
I don't feel sorry for them. They have not learned their lesson. They will not change. They are still
I bet Orson Welles could stir up some scary sentiment about coronavirus and not one person would think it had anything to do with beer.
* FLOTSAM means For Liberal Opinion That is Serious and Actually Matters
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