Yesterday’s QotD came from a comment left by the Geekwitha45 to a previous post. That comment in its entirety goes:
The MSM isn’t broken.
It’s operating effectively, as designed and intended. Unfortunately, being a source of unbiased, deep information is not a design consideration.
What *is* broken is the electorate, which failed to detect that condition and correct for it.
This is why I no longer believe myself to have any duty of conscience to be chained to the outcomes of a broken electorate or electoral process.
Which sucks, because all I ever really wanted from my government was a vigorous defense of my natural rights, in a package that was safe enough to mostly ignore, instead of the ringside seats at the horror show.
Wheee.
One of my co-workers has a cartoon-a-day calendar of New Yorker cartoons. This one is from a few days ago:
I’ve got a few thousand words to say on this topic that I just can’t get written down. I hate when that happens, but I thought I’d share the picture with you and prompt you for your thoughts. Maybe you’ll break my damned dam free.