--- In [email protected], "mizpattay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's the thing about the system of news coverage we have today. If > the Walton family, or Lee Raymond, or the heirs to the Mars fortune > actually needed the news media to work better than it does now, > believe me, it would work better. But they have no such need, because > the system is working just fine for them as is. The people it's > failing are the rest of us, and most of the rest of us, apparently, > would rather sniff Anna Nicole Smith's corpse or watch Britney Spears > hump a fire hydrant than find out what our tax dollars are actually > paying for.
Yup, I'm right with you on this. But analysis of the federal budget doesn't play with the general public, be it in newspapers, on the Web, or on the nightly news. Joe and Julie Average would much rather hear about Britney or ANS or the latest from American Idol.
