Jerk-off's personified

There is much said on a regular basis about the media...pro and con. Quite frankly, in my opinion they have become an embarrassment to our nation, as demonstrated on a daily basis with the crap we're exposed to, from the mainstream venues of CBS, NBC, and ABC, to the pay cable stations such as CNN, MSNBC, and FOX.

This past weekend is absolutely representative of how they play stupid games to present the story they way they want it presented. I don't want to seem insensitive to the plight of the unfortunate, but did you notice this past weekend the people in the Tornado-socked area of Florida who were interviewed by the national media? If you watched any of the coverage, you got an average of about 10 interviews per hour, most of them from the less than stellar in our society.

I understand the many of those who took it hardest were folks who were trailer park owners. But there were plenty of people who lived in $500,000.00 homes that were leveled who could have been interviewed and were not. Instead of a representative section of Florida's population being shown, the media instead focused on the hapless and undereducated. Some of the quotes that went out on the air:

Woman: "I heard the freight train comin', and I nue 'twas a Tornada." (T-o-r-n-a-d-A)

Man: "In all mahh laahhfff, I ain't not never seen anythahhhn lahhk this-ee here before. It was laahk being hit with a huge storm er sumpin."

Man: "This here truck is sumpin laahhk 47 foot, and it flew over here about 19 foot or so, and ended up in a place that don't make not a lick of sense at all."

And my favorite, from last night:

"Lake County just keeps getting bombarded with inundation."

Everyone in Florida is not a country bumkin struggling to find enough quarters to buy a half case of Bud and a pack of smokes. But I believe the media intentionally shows these folks to create that impression. Why they do it is beyond me, but I truly think it's elitism at its finest.
If you show only the lowest we have on the social chain, it makes the "show-er" of such look much higher than the content of their material. Certainly there is a tie into the 2000 election when elderly South Floridian's couldn't seem to understand the ballot, and since then the media has made every effort to exploit Florida as a dumb person's Valhalla.

Personally, I think its despicable.