An Illustration of the Laziness of Today's Media

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There's a radio talking head I listen to often. He always offers a unique perspective and brings up some great points. But there's a story he has told a million times that never gets old, about today's media and journalists in general, that sums up rather nicely the state of our press these days, and why it is so useless when you really get to the heart of it. An editor tells his reporter there is a press conference that will be delivered by the mayor, and he wants the reporter to go and cover it. After a very short time the reporter comes back, and the editor inquires as to what he learned from the press conference. "Nothing happened," said the reporter. "What do you mean? Why?" "The press conference was cancelled." The editor scratches his head. "Why was it cancelled?" "Someone broke into the mayor's office and assassinated him." The moral of the story is that the reporter ONLY knew to cover what he was told to cover and did not understand that the REAL story was not about the press conference, but the fact that someone killed the mayor. And that's how news is done these days. The right questions rarely get asked and the real stories rarely get told because reporters are either too lazy or too dumb to get to the bottom of what it is they are supposed to be covering.