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There are reportings going on. There is a delivery mechanism for them and a delivery persona behind it, normally properly primped with the ability to read a teleprompter. One could say they are properly prompted. The reporting can never be about maneuvering or marginalizing or fudging. Not on my TV. It just can't be.

 

There can never be an ego or two involved, with an agenda of one and divisible by the number of endorsements---one world, under Wall Street, with residuals and interest for a few---a very few. Endorsement is another name for advertisement. If you lose the endorsement, you lose the advertisement and that translates into lost revenue and shareholder devaluation and shareholders hate devaluation. They tend to sue for lost potential. For a corporation by intention to try to devaluate a stock price in lieu of a perceived more important reason is actually against the law, so by default, being simply objective can translate into criminal activity. Edward R. Murrow would probably have died in Jail if he were alive today... sort of.

 

Another problem with reporting is that it is boring and we need to be entertained. We demand diversion. Who wants to waste time just hearing or even worse, watching a human drone through reporting the facts with no twists or turns or accusations when there is an unreal reality based group embarrassment going on on a different channel. Switching channels can decrease shareholder value. This is why news reporters and game show hosts have quite a deal in common. Actually, the naked news channel was fun for awhile---facts and titties, the perfect combination even if one and/or the other is overinflated. I think it was deemed objectionable by a few others though---a few important others and it was cancelled. The diversion was not approved.

 

Finally, reporting is clutter and we can't handle too much of that. Clutter is reserved for that which occupies any available garage or basement space. Cerebral clutter can be a cause for pause and pausing to sort before reacting slows the economy. We're trying to handle clutter with multiple points of access but the devices that provide the access sometimes don't interface or their batteries don't hold or they need upgrades. So to weed through the clutter we need a sage, a reporter that will show us the way, tell us what is important so we don't have to think as much. We can be led to the truth. Since there really is no such thing as truth beyond one's own, this is not a dilemma and thus not a reason to lose a good night's sleep over.