Mirror Mirror on the Wall

ABC news anchor, Bob Woodruff, and his cameraman were seriously injured by an IED last week as they drove through the streets of Iraq. In other non-news, several unnamed and unmentioned American soldiers were either killed or injured last week by IEDs in the same country, Iraq.

I find this interesting because the media is overly concerned about their “own” and will continue to report on the anchor's condition throughout the day and night regardless of any interest (or lack of) conveyed by the viewer.

Americans are often criticized for being self-centered—for not knowing much about the world beyond their borders and for not doing more for the folks beyond those borders suffering for various reasons be it famine, disease, war, economics, etc. Our lack of knowledge dooms others because, I’m supposing, the power we hold as Americans is omnipotent.

I assert that the perpetrators of self-centered-ness are in fact the Media or MSM. They bring us ad nauseam one so-called and so-created scandal after another: the NSA “spying on good Americans” scandal, the Valerie “Jane Blonde” Plame scandal, WMD lies, Iraq/Afghanistan quagmires, etc etc etc.

They go on and on about Bush -–plainly most American (and European for that matter) MSM and many others (actors, writers, playwrights, philosophers, etc) are obsessed with the man. Is there nothing else??? Honestly, I would really like to know the progress or lack of in the Sudan or Sierra Leone or the Congo or Tibet or Indonesia and on and on.

The media supposedly reflects the world around us, clearly they reflect their world—selfish, self-interested and just plain ugly.