I'm not one to fixate on the media, and I don't get into the lather others do when this or that medium offends their delicate anti-bias sensibilities.

Maybe because I think the whole business is mostly ridiculous in the first place.

Here is part of the reason.

This speech by Michael Crichton is priceless. Funny, and terribly right I think.

"...they've forgotten what real, reliable information is, and the lengths you have to go to get it. It's so much harder than just speculating. "

It reads as something of an argument for ignoring media...which, for me, is very easy!

Mostly, I'm reminded of H.D. Thoreau's idea that the news is essentially gossip (that's a terribly mangled paraphrase).

I think of that often.