This column by author Victor Davis Hansen is about viewing American news while overseas.
http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-art-of-appreciating-america-from-abroad/
From the column:
1. We should not listen to journalists, politicians, or academics who lecture about overpopulation, looming environmental catastrophe, or general unsustainability if they live in a house over 2,500 square feet and fly more than once a month. Unfortunately that covers most of our alarmists. Otherwise these megaphones simply are medieval grandees seeking indulgences and penances through loud lectures against what they enjoy in the flesh.
2. When listening to national network or cable news, please assume that during the half-hour show one of the talking heads anchor, correspondent, interviewer is either married to or dating another like talking head at another station or paper, or a D.C. politician, and that most of what we shall subsequently hear is predicated on that fact. The nexuses are usually sex, money, power, or a shared quest for celebrity, and they lead to a warped view of contemporary America the deranged hatred for the upstart and independent Sarah Palin a prime example.
http://pajamasmedia.com/victordavishanson/the-art-of-appreciating-america-from-abroad/
From the column:
1. We should not listen to journalists, politicians, or academics who lecture about overpopulation, looming environmental catastrophe, or general unsustainability if they live in a house over 2,500 square feet and fly more than once a month. Unfortunately that covers most of our alarmists. Otherwise these megaphones simply are medieval grandees seeking indulgences and penances through loud lectures against what they enjoy in the flesh.
2. When listening to national network or cable news, please assume that during the half-hour show one of the talking heads anchor, correspondent, interviewer is either married to or dating another like talking head at another station or paper, or a D.C. politician, and that most of what we shall subsequently hear is predicated on that fact. The nexuses are usually sex, money, power, or a shared quest for celebrity, and they lead to a warped view of contemporary America the deranged hatred for the upstart and independent Sarah Palin a prime example.
