My day begins with a cup of coffee as I watch some morning news, and then I move on to getting my blog together so I will have much of it done before noon when I go out into the world.

While working at my drawing table I have cable news droning in the background. Since there is no plot to follow, I can draw and listen without having to pay attention to what’s on the screen. This doesn’t work with plotted shows that would call for multiple rewinds to see what I missed. Definitely does not work with horror films where a lot of mumbling and silence is followed by a loud musical blare.

With Cable news, it’s just narrative with no plot, and sometimes it gets so repetitive that I will switch to C-SPAN and C-SPAN2 where during votes there is blessed silence with the promise of pending action and speeches, some of which are almost satire in their representation of reality.

In the effort to cover a 24hour news day, it seems at times that the stations are looking for anything to fill the time.

Last week, when the missing women turned up dead and her fiance’ missing, the cable stations began their non-stop coverage of the story with interviews, and anyone with an opinion on it seemed to get the opportunity to have their say. It was the lead story, the constant go-back-to story.

By the end of the week these same stations and talking heads lamented how Americans had become obsessed with the story they had been throwing at us. It was the broadcast equivalent of those annoying “News” articles that pop up on Facebook newsfeed where we are told all of America is obsessed with someone, something, or some event which makes me have to do a Google search to see what I am so concerned about.

And, just to be clear, I do not land on one channel and stay there, nor do I turn only to those that agree with me. I surf the channels and have often gone to the questionable channels like OAN just to hear from them what a certain segment of the population believes already or will soon.

I have found that each hour of news has at least 5 guests on, usually many more, to cover various items and that does not include panel discussions. I feel safe in saying with an extremely low speculation that at least on each station there are 120 people in that 24 hour time period. I know my numbers are low, but I wanted to use an easy one.  

News can be boring if it just covers important things. That’s why the local morning news usually begins with a house fire that is of no consequence except to those involved, car crashes that, again, really are not news but the video is great, and to get to the weather they skim over important stories that affect all of us with few details that would give substance to the report.

I, like most thinking Americans, was glad when Joe Biden won because something substantial could now be done for the benefit of citizens and some of the circus acts would no longer be in the center ring. There was much that had to be cleaned up after four years of the previous person who sub-let the White House, and much we hoped would be corrected.

However, we have to be realistic.

Going back to that modest number of show guests, the pattern is that each comes on with their issue and each demands that Biden handle it now, or they condemn him as a failure because, in 8 months, he has not dealt with every concern (120 x number of cable news channels) immediately.

Everything is a crisis until it isn’t, and when it is revealed that something had been dealt with and solved, rather than acknowledge that, they will ask why he did not already handle something else.

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Leaving Afghanistan was dealt with as a huge failure until the last plane left and things were rough but accomplished. The sudden surge at the border was the end of Biden until he handled it, but even then, although his approach on this had addressed the concerns of both friend and foe, the media just went running to find some other border problem they could predict would be Bidens demise.

They demanded the Haitian refugees be moved and then found fault that they were.

When mounted border patrol agents on horseback were rounding up Haitian refugees and using their reins as whips, the moment the word got out and the videos were seen, people were demanding something that had ended before anyone knew about it should be handled by Biden, which he had, but they did not wait to learn that, but spent time in useless discussion of hypotheticals about what should be done, as it was being done.

According to too many, all the problems that existed on January 20, 2021, should have been fixed by January 21. 2021 and not having happened Biden’s effectiveness came into question.

My mother would often refer to the “Sha-doos”, those things everyone else tells someone they should do while competing in who can make the most demands and whose time limit is the shortest.

Any time anything has been happening nationally or internationally, the media speculates if Biden will handle it correctly, will he do it now, and will this be what brings his presidency down.

They are like magpies who, after having endured starvation, gorge themselves when presented with food and kill themselves by continuing to eat as much as they can as fast as they can even when they are full.

I have seen shows on all outlets that are basically a string of people voicing their own issue while ignoring those of others each demanding that theirs be the priority, like birds in the nest when the mother shows up with a worm, keeping with a bird analogy.

And then they speculate why the population is confused.

The country would be less divided if those who are supposed to be presenting the news do that without speculating on things yet, or never to happen and how bad that is for America.

Meanwhile we are trying to deal with the reality that exists.

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