America's Finest News Source reports on how such (s)exciting scandals are merely the preview of how President Obama plans to make his second term a lot more appealing to Americans:
It is a tragedy that Petraeus making love under his office desk is such a media event, while the wars that he conducted went unscrutinized, and continue to be neglected. The press, while happily playing the role of the government's propaganda machine, couldn't care to ask the tough questions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, or about waterboarding, or about Guantanamo, or about the massive surveillance state we have built up, or about the extensive use of drones to kill people, including American citizens, or even about the sacredness of the military budget itself against the backdrop of the fiscal cliff.
It is sex that sells.
Bloody porn-addicted media and population we have become!
We may as well convert our news channels to porn channels; I suppose, in that case, Faux News will deliver nothing but hardcore porn?
I bet more Americans will now be able to name Petraeus' lover than the number that will be able to identify Afghanistan on a world map. Imagine what we could have achieved if we had instead educated Americans about Afghanistan and Iraq: Paula Broadwell would have been an unknown Jane Doe in this vast American landscape as much as a Sriram is a John Doe.
1 comment:
Mr John Doe !!!,
Good idea. If we make porn ubiquitous, within one year everybody will become so bored with it that it will disappear. That's probably the best way of dealing with it.
Aam Aadmi , literally translated as Mango People!!
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