Reply #32: Is your poetry complicit with what is wrong with America? [View All]

[Scribe]

What about your postings here on DU? You are part of the media. Your submissions to the general discourse are no more complicit with what is wrong with this country than ANY other submission anywhere or anytime by anybody.

Like so many other critics of the press, you may have fallen into a mental trap concerning the media. The trap is in the mistaken belief that something like objectivity or fairness is a constitutional obligation of the media. Maybe you think reporters and columnists have a moral obligation to the truth. No they don't, not any more than poets do.

If organizations or individuals choose to set themselves up as being objective, it's up to you to judge their degree of failure. Nobody is always objective, fair and un mistaken. You'll find one organization to be more reliable than the rest. Some reporters will strike you as repulsively stupid or biased. Although your posts here evidence an ego willing to belittle people because of what they do or studied, you may even find a single standout reporter who meets your exalted measure. It doesn't matter. The point is 'the media' is plural and refers to a nearly infinite spectrum of offerings.

So no, the media in all its facets is not complicit with what's wrong with America. It is America. All the depth of reporting you want is available. The particular worldview you favor is available. The media is responsible for what America has become to the same degree that America is responsible for what the media has become.