for you, my rage is boundless.

dear media,

I once was sad for you. I wondered what the impact would be gone after you were gone. Of course, main-stream media (MSM), we’ve been predicting your demise for well over a decade now. Everyone said the Internet and new-media was going to kill you. And, once, I was terribly sad for this.

I’ve always wondered who would fill the place for responsible journalism. Reporting on the issues that matter. Going deep, and spending time digging into things being the banal and superficial.

For a while, MSM, I, for some bizarre reason, thought you still transcended the petty and reported on the substance. But I couldn’t have been more wrong. Over the past six months, I’ve tried paying attention. I’ve watched nightly news casts and even local news. Read headlines of newspapers. And, man, I am nauseous. You’ve forsaken us.

There is a war going on. And you ignore it. I don’t want you to take positions. I want you to freaking report on it. Report on the big successes that occur. Cover the deaths. Cover the injuries. Cover the heroism of our soldiers. Cover the people of Iraq who help us. Cover the sectarian violence. Cover the contractors and the unprecedented nature of private involvement in the war. For the love of god, please, just…cover it. Here’s a NY Times Op-Ed. This is the must-read piece of June.

As a people, we, the American public would rather not think about the things we find unpleasant. So we don’t ask for the coverage. And, very graciously, you bastards don’t provide it. But where we’re sending hundreds of thousands of America’s youth matters. Where we’re spending hundreds of billions of dollars matters. Yet, you wouldn’t know it. It’s been decided that the war is “old news.”

You’ve savaged your responsibility yet again. This goes perfectly with reporting on the trade deficit, the budget deficit, the state of education system, inner cities, the pathetic war on drugs, our crumbling national infrastructure.

You sicken me.

love,
surya