Why is US Govt. so much like American Network TV?

Question

1) They both rely heavily on ratings/polls.
2) They both rely heavily on marketing/advertising
3) They both rely heavily on stars & villains
4) They both constantly need controversies/battles & scandals to keep their audience (American people) interested.
5) They both spend money like teenage girls.
6) They both hire some of the least intelligent, most ignorant people in the US.
7) They both think that they are helping America when in fact they are only manipulating the US to what they believe in.
9) They like nothing better than a special "main event" battle like American idol or Watergate or Libby trial or Fed Prosecutors firings scandal, that brings in the highest ratings of the year & makes it look like what they do really matters when it all a bunch of BS.

If US Govt. is really nothing more than American Idol might it be time to change it back to being a Govt. & not a TV Network?

Answer 1

that would be great, and the best way is to get rid of the current admin and start fresh.

Answer 2

I see you are at least asking the questions. All is not lost. Just repeating over and over again that America has a free press doesn't make it so. I'm reminded of something Noam Chomsky said about, Russians living under Soviet rule. Everybody knew Pravada was nothing more than a government run press heavily censored and propagandized by the government so nobody paid any atention to it. They would or know some one that could tune into or smuggle printed foreign press in, to figure out what was going on in the world.
In stark contrast Americans today, outside maybe a tribe or country that gets absolutely no info at all beyond it's living space are the mass majority uniformed, misinformed, outragously lied to about world events to the point of sounding silly to grade 4's in any other country. You don't understand why the world dosn't understand you. Well for starters most of the planet gets at least some version of reality. While Americans are always being fed the Cinderella Fairy Tale. So as you think you do noble deeds the world sees a sadistic sociopath drunk on it's own power. How the heck did that happen?...... Remember Reagan? Some alphebet soup agencey that had rules about broadcasting? How big % any one agency could own? How much had to remain puplic and well funded? reach even remote areas. The NEWS was never expected to show a bottom line? Do you remember when if the talking head was saying something really dumb, it did not just hang their as if was a truth. Another head would roll it's eyes and mockingly say what you were thinking "man that sounds like something my pot smoking teen would dream up, are u on drugs man? Then all would see the absurdity was just a con trying to be sold to the public exposed. haha.
Then Reagan said the public is so good at all that exposing and the government or big corperations would never lie or try to trick the puplic so let's DEREGULATE and let big business and government make and govern their own rules...then in the 1990's something called supermergers were invented or something and in a span of less then 20 years a huge great land like America with many voices and many opinions and lots to say went from having tens or hundreds of thousnds of owners of newspapers, T.V. stations cable, magazines,publishing houses, radio stations, down to last I heard 6. Thei are still as many choices, only 6 owners. You have titles like"TimeWarnerDisneyBinLauden....." I don't know so of course editor and reporters learn to self censor to please the owners and advertisers the odd rebel can still exist as an extremist for truthtelling, to a point. The Rest of his peers will marginalize him/her act as if peer get signals from mars etc. This is to appear as debate and free press....How much more freedom can America take before FEMA declares a state of overdemocracy, and it's off to the consentration camps, gulags or are they calling them happy camps for our delayed 1984...Mary

Answer 3

Maybe they should make a reality show about Congress....

Answer 4

Maybe it's just the other way around?