Here’s the proposition: Get your news from PR people – you know what they’re selling. If you’ve been following the debate over health care you have surely come to realize that the news channels are anything but unbiased; any last doubts you might have had about the idea of balanced news reporting have finally been put to rest. News people continue to look with disdain upon “flacks” as individuals who will spin a story to any length in order to get a mention for their clients’ services or products. What do you call the endless succession of good-looking men and women who grace our TV screens during prime time news and beyond? The whole thing really becomes unraveled when “anchors” inject their own commentary – do these people know anything besides where to get their haircuts?
So here’s my proposal: let companies and organizations set-up their own news broadcasts, and let the public decide for themselves. Take health care, for example. Let’s hear it from Blue Cross, AARP, the AMA, the Democrats, the Republicans… Who needs a TV anchor to moderate? How does an inept and biased individual help in the process? It’s not the bias so much, you would expect some opinion to creep in, it’s the spectacle of grown man and women with the depth of knowledge of a 10-year-old posturing like adults.