I liked it better when I considered news boring as a youngster.  At least it had the pretense of being objective. I’m not naïve enough to think the news was never about business.  It was a ratings game then and a click game now.

What came first?  The news turning to sensationalism to drive ratings or the viewer wanting sensationalism before we watch?

A bigger question is whether the pendulum will ever swing back.  At the very least I hope the news media regains that quaint notion of fact checking before publishing.

I liked it better when sports were about the games and scores and not political statements.  I guess that’s what happens when society neuters the idea of winning and losing.  In life, when someone or a team wins the other person or team loses.  The outcome of a competition does not create winners and losers.  I’m afraid only the behavior of the participants in the competition can do that.

When I was younger I enjoyed watching the Hollywood awards shows to get a glimpse of what my favorite actors actually were like.  I am no longer a fan of any awards show because of the hubris that emanates every time a celebrity opens his or her mouth.

According to published reports, the Grammy awards show this year was down 24 percent from 2017. It seems a considerable amount of people share my view about the awards shows. However, we’ll hear the ratings drop had more to do with the show airing in January versus February. In short, they’ll be tons of explanations and complete avoidance to the true facts.

Real people are fed up with the elites. We don’t want overpriced, egomaniacal self-absorbed miscreants speaking for us.  We prefer honest and fair dialog.

We each have our biases but the total disregard for fair and accurate reporting is getting absurd.  On both sides of the political spectrum.  I expect the Democrats to balk at the release of a declassified memo about purported surveillance abuses at the FBI.  These are the same people who delighted in the daily leaks about President Trump early in his term.

We accept our politicians to be two-faced, untrustworthy letches. I actually think those traits are in the job description.  What we do not expect is the people covering the inmates in the Capitol Asylum to take sides.

That’s where the news media goes off the rails.  They blame everyone but themselves.  To them, it’s President Trump’s fault for convincing Americans the media dishes fake news.  To normal people, it’s the media’s responsibility to figure out how to overcome fake news.  It’s easy. Deliver fair and objective news.