A society that remains successful in appealing to the lowest common denominator (lcd), breeds ignorance and detachment. [lcd break] Freedom of speech is a right (obligation?) to offend, with the hopes that audiences might ponder subject matter longer than their stunted minds generally permit. [lcd break] In a modern nation, where people have the opportunity and resources to really think, we’re plagued in the efforts of determining if an action is politically correct or socially acceptable.

In another useless “quality media coverage” several stations babbled about this New Yorker Mag Cover:

Summed up, the cartoon gathers and magnifies all the ludacris rumors floating on the internet into one image. Yet we’re expected to dilute our media to the plebeian level- The fear being readership may not understand that it is a satire (as it features victim’s not accusers). - Let me phrase that in blunt terminology.

The average American, as deemed by other Americans, is not intelligent classify something so outrageous as satire, despite the fact that it originates on the cover of a very creditable source. [lcd - brain overload]

My guess is that these same people would pick up a copy of The Onion and TXT all the current events their friends.

Truly Sad, I blame our reporters. Real news hasn’t been broadcast since I was a baby, as the Cold War fizzled away.