On the morning news recently, the anchors began by discussing the top stories as every morning: professionally bringing to the public the events in recent days with follow-ups to on-going events in the nation and world.

This lasted as usual for about ten minutes, and the newscasters passed individual stories to one another while the camera captured the earnestness on their faces. However, what came next shot anything of relevance to hell.

The next shot of one of the newscasters reveal a smiled instead of seriousness. The next thing out of their mouth was some story on Elvis. This sudden change in relevance makes one wonder what the hell are people in America thinking about. If established news media researches their audience in terms of ratings and what the public likes, then this country is truly demented by the stories the news reports.

They constantly reflect on people such as Elvis and do segments dedicated to past Hollywood legends such as John Wayne, Shirley Temple, including sports legends and musicians like Babe Ruth and the Beetles.

During their reflection, do they ever consider that maybe most, if not all, of the people they profile were or are racist? These people lived during a time when racism was normal, when Blacks had separate facilities. Does it not occur to them that these people thought the same about Blacks as the greater society did?

Not only do they profile racist, but they profile dictators and murderers such as Hitler and Alexander the Great; serial killers and rapist, and many other demented personality types that roamed America then and in history past. If the news media is giving the public what the public wants, then we are living in a horrid time.

When these people are profiled, more recently, news anchors seem to attempt to draw sympathy or understanding for their pathological or psychological behavior. It seems as though they are trying to resurrect an idol from the dead or at least upholding one for their own glory, which is a form of idolatry.

Sifting through the relevance of the news has become an art. They do not report on what the people need to know, they report on what people want to know. This is their error. The news is contradictory, irrelevant, time wasting, and uninformative, and it never addresses the true problems of society, but feeds the public propaganda to direct their paths.

© 2004 by CR Hamilton