09.17.07 07:52AM by Amos
I’ll pick on politicians quite often for being, essentially, vote-chasing opportunist clowns. And I’ll be the first to admit it’s often unfair as the modern day professional politician, full of air and devoid of soul, is a result of multiple factors and not always as simple as a birth defect. Here’s an example; In 1968 the average length of a political candidates television news sound-bite was 42 seconds. Now it is 8 seconds. The Conglomerated Media doesn’t even try to give news context anymore. It happened. Who the fuck knows why. It’ll happen again, but for now here’s three dancing monkeys drunk on Scotch. More of less the news cycle nowadays. [via The Center for Media and Public Affairs]
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