I’ve been flipping back and forth between NFL coverage and CNN and I’ve discovered that there is a lot of hype with precious little truth or story behind any of it. I’ll start with a sports example. Come draft time everyone is talking about the next truly amazing athlete and trying to be the channel that gets it right by picking a winner. To that end they all hype a handful of ‘could be’s’ of their choosing while the world gets behind one or two folks who were dominant at the college level. Every year there is a QB that might be the next Brady or Manning. Every running back considered a first rounder is the next Beast Mode or AP. Likewise CNN sells hype like its land in AZ–cheaply and all the dang time. We’ve seen the station push the Trump machine as an important story to follow and we all bought the heck in. We’ve seen how they can do that to any candidate or story in order to make it relevant and sell commercial time. Don’t believe me?
CNN is still running front page stories on the MH370 disappearance. Yeah, that plane search I once compared to the entire first season of LOST is still relevant to these guys and it still is being hyped up enough that every now and again someone gives a hoot. The problem there is that we (the masses) fall in so easily behind these stories and people and hype mattering that we lose any real since of objectivity and understanding in the process.
That ain’t the media world I want to live in.