Why are we seeing George Bush on TV every two hours for nine or ten days at a time, like some kind of mutated Mr. Rogers clone? Something is dangerously wrong in any country where a monumentally-failed backwoods politician can scare our national TV networks so totally that they will give him anything he wants.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Excessive media coverage of a flawed political figure indicates a dangerous dysfunction in national broadcasting.
- In plain terms
- TV networks giving too much time to a bad politician is a sign of trouble.
- What can you take from it?
- Media attention does not always equal competence.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why do networks focus on certain figures?
- Does coverage reflect quality?
Another view
Media coverage can sometimes be informative.
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