Recently everyone has heard about the comedy central “rally to restore sanity/ march to restore fear” put on by Steven Colbert and john Stewart. This was the talk of everyone everywhere. All the other news station were trying to guess what the rally would hold.
Would it be political?
What would the goals be?
Would it have a point, or was it just to make fun (most likely at glen beck)?
Well it finally happened and it turned out to not be the earth shattering moment in history some people were hopeing it would be. It had its up moments and it had its down (the part with the myth busters was the worst from what this article below reads). At the end of the rally though john Stewart made the comment that “no matter what happened today it will either be remembered as an amazing success, or an epic failure.” That quote right there sums up everything that is wrong with the media. everything has to be an extreme. No one wants to hear the story of an average rally, or a senator who just did am alright job. We want entertainment, scandal, disaster, and devastation. That’s what sells. And its because of this that the rally can’t just be ok. It has to be something that is earth shattering amazing, or destroys the country.
Why is it that we cant have average? Why cant we hear stories what aren’t over embellished to the point of ridiculousness. If we could achieve this it would fix every problem we have talked about in the media all semester.
You make a very good point. Since most of us are part of that sex, scandal, etc sells, most people don't think about wanting just average news. I think we as a country do need that a lot. Most of us being in poli sci do look a little bit more beyond the stories but the majority of the population does not want to. I think we can all learn a lot from day to day stories that change our country slowly. It would be great but that would mean changing the tastes of the population and unfortunately I don't think its gonna happen anytime soon:)
ReplyDeleteI look at that rally as an entertainment event for people who wanted to demonstrate solidarity with the idea of America toning down the extreme rhetoric of political polarization. If I had gone to this rally it would have been to have a good time visiting D.C.; which if I may say so, is much more interesting intellectually than Disney World. I've been to both.
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