OMG The Sky Is Falling!

When Japan suffered that first tragic earthquake last month, the news media was all over it...even going so far as to send their normally chair bound talking heads over to experience the devastation first hand. Now? Hardly a mention.

When the government was threatened with a 'OMG The Sky Is Falling' government shut down last week, the news was filled with panic stricken talking heads desperately trying to blame the Republicans or, worse, the Tea Party for wanting to attain a balanced budget that our children and grandchildren won't have to struggle to pay for. Now they've moved on to other things...like the deficit ceiling (another potential 'OMGTSIF). Tomorrow, it'll be some other adrenaline inducing, shock story or fluff piece like Charlie Sheen's mental breakdown.

Of course, the lame stream media full of left wing socialists and George Soros a$$ lickers isn't only to blame. Neither is the single right wing conservative news station. No, they all stand out there, kicking their legs up, skirts flying as they do the wicked can-can to grab all the attention they can get.

But is it their fault they do this? Or is it the fault of the average American who's attention span ranges between 5 and 20 seconds?

I submit it's BOTH. When all we get are sound bites flavored with personal prejudices or prostituted opinions, our natural instinct is to shrug it off. That leads the media, on both sides, to believe we're too stupid to 'get it'. We're not. We are however too lazy to dig past the sound bites or the personal prejudices or the bought and paid for opinions to get the truth that is hidden from us.

We let them feed us pablum; we let them treat us like children. Ignorant children. But they forget. Children grow and their teeth will come in. The media and its puppetmasters may one day find those teeth sunk deep in their backsides. Deservedly so.

When it happens, they'll get no apology.