Piling up... and on

Ugh.

Looked over my two most recent posts and I see what is happening.

The media is in love with the mountain of garbage that's obstructing whatever view we might have of the real issues of the day.  And there are plenty of those, although you have to be willing to claw your way through the avalanche of rot to get even a peek at them.

I'll give you just two examples; there are plenty more:  The coverage of the vile rants and apparent actions of  Mel Gibson, and the incessant obsession with whether some, the few. the menacing, probably the only, members of the New Black Panther Party threatened voters on their way to the polls some time ago, and should have been prosecuted as a result.

Now, I am all for Gibson being hauled into the public square and revealed to be the person he is.  But not every minute of the day, and not at the expense of, say, real probes into causes of the oil spill, or the failure of the unemployment bill to pass.

And I wonder at the examination of the New Black Panthers (who seem to be enjoying the media exposure themselves) even though they apparently have fewer followers than a Mel Gibson Fan Club, when the Justice Department already did its job and found nothing there. Especially, to give only two other examples, since I don't see at least as much concern and real investigation into the state of our current role in Afghanistan, or the genuine impact of the economic stimulus.

It's not that the media doesn't have the guns to to its job.  It just doesn't want to . After all, it is so distracted diving into the dumpster after Gibson, and the New Black Panthers, and Lindsay Lohan, and the iPhone reception, and.... and... and.....

Something smelly here, and it doesn't require all the heat we've been having lately to make it obvious.