I can’t follow the political developments on a regular basis. It’s too loud, people talk too fast and try to cram everything into confined time frames because they have to work around the myriad breaks for words from their sponsors. Commercial television is hard to watch. Even PBS has conceded somewhat to advertisers and modified the way they handle their financial supporters, but at least they get everything out of the way up front.
Anyway, the news often feels like a cascading waterfall that just keeps dumping on us who stand underneath. It’s hard to talk, hard to breathe, hard to digest because we keep getting pummeled. There are too many contrived questions from panels of experts and pundits in the pursuit of filling airtime with… something, anything, hopefully a decent query that engenders a thoughtful, enlightening response, but often enough just boilerplate stuff that we’ve already heard somewhere else.
And now we get to endure the endless back and forth and analysis of the two tickets, likely complete with the latest low blows and dumb comments from Trump, along with the inevitable dramatic developments and dug-up dirt that always seem to materialize.
Hey, it’s still better than a lone anchor sitting at a desk being fed the official party line handed down from the Ministry of Propaganda, or whoever.
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