President Obama Says Stop Watching Cable News
On Wednesday, President Obama had a Howard Beale moment. Speaking to a group of Democratic senators, the President exhorted his listeners — and, by extension, all Americans — to break the cable news habit.
“If everybody here turned off your CNN, your Fox, just turn off the TV, MSNBC, blogs, and just go talk to folks out there, instead of being in this echo chamber where the topic is constantly politics,” Obama said, things would be an awful lot better in Washington.
His appeal threatened to alienate some of his loyal supporters in the media – MSNBC cut away from Obama’s remarks shortly after, with a nervous joke — but it was dead on target.
It doesn’t really matter whether Bill O’Reilly or Keith Olbermann is the bigger blowhard, or whether Shepard Smith is less biased than Wolf Blitzer. The fact is, if you’re getting your news from cable, you’re getting misinformed. You’re being told things are important that aren’t. You’re getting a diet of stories selected primarily for their strong visuals and sensationalistic details, not for their news value. You’re watching a lot of split-screen shots of people talking over each other so loudly that none can be understood.
In short: If you watch a great deal of cable news, you are making yourself stupider. Put down the remote control. Pick up a newspaper. You may not have that luxury much longer.
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