BIG MICROPHONES

The Big Microphone platforms monitor viewer ratings by the hour. You have to love those dopey daily headlines on FOX and CNN. Their respective editors play the Fear Card like it's every card in the deck! 

Tall, bolded typeface gets your attention like a shrill visual siren, even font style carefully chosen for maximum shock effect. It can be humorous, it's so clownish and obvious, the copy thoughtfully worded to preview each imminent danger. Typically for CNN, the fear topics are Trump, Trump, Trump, Climate Change, several race-baiting topics that dredge up past controversies and conflict; and lately, some anti-Musk hit pieces. 

For FOX, it's the Joe & Hunter Biden Show, bank records and laundered cash, Commies, Lefties, and Liberals, crossdresser storytime, and taxpayers footing for convicts Wi-Fi. Those are the kind of daily, bread and butter headlines they both go with, but editors can get artful whipping up the adrenaline.

Like..."GIANT SPIDERS POISED TO INVADE URBAN AREAS." "THE TEN MOST WORRISOME ASTEROIDS." "WHAT THE GOVERNMENT ISN'T SAYING ABOUT AREA 51." "PARASITES THAT LIVE WITH YOU, 24/7." "HOW MANY POTENTIAL ELECTRONIC SPIES ARE IN YOUR HOME?" 

This mind programming continues daily, today I'm sure, no exception. Guaranteed- and, I haven't even checked yet- CNN and FOX want us to be afraid, very afraid of...something. 

We could be in the checkstand chuckling at those baiting gossip rags. But, are these self-described mainstream news networks any better these days? "WHO CARES? FEAR SELLS, FORGET THE REST!"

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