I recently posted this on facebook:
Can we just call it like it is: Cable news makes you stupider. If anyone’s watched that episode of The Boondocks where Huey watches nothing but BET, you’ll understand what cable news does to you.
And I included a link to this article: Study: Some Viewers Were Misinformed by TV News.
In retrospect, I never read the study and trusted someone else to inform me on it, so that probably wasn’t a good idea. Anyway, people have been lured into the partisan aspect of this, claiming that Fox News misinforms people the most. Or rather, that people who watch Fox News are more likely to believe certain false claims. I don’t care about this and don’t want to talk about it because I believe that all cable news is stupid.
I recently found some stuff that confirms my bias, so I’d like to link to them:
Be Careful What You Magnify, Ctd on Andrew Sullivan’s blog (He’s on vacation, so it’s not Sullivan writing)
On Cable News by Radley Balko
Cable News Switcheroo by Radley Balko
Cable News: Where Being Loud Trumps Being Wrong by Radley Balko
Hey.. this is totally unrelated to your post… but did an e-mail of yours just get published on The Dish? For some reason, I thought about you here — http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/12/the-most-beautiful-words-ctd.html (the reader quoted re “Moist, charm, murmur.”) Or maybe it’s all a figment of some ancient dream.
Anyway, an early Hauoli Makahiki Hou to you, Shawn. I wish for you an excellent year, in all respects.
No, that wasn’t me, but charm and murmur are lovely words. I don’t know about moist. It doesn’t do much for me. I have also heard that some people can’t stand the word.
I did have a post about words I really like the sound of, including steep. Just the verb steep, though, not the adjective.