Agents of Misinformation

In watching more cable news in the past few weeks than I have in a long time, I've been amazed at how much the delivery of news has turned into the delivery of opinions. Even CNN's Headline News, which, in the good old days, just delivered the headlines has turned into a pulpit for Glenn Beck and others. The greatest agent of misinformation on CNN has to be Lou Dobbs with his xenophobic and misleading reporting on immigration and the economy. I have never encountered someone speak with so much authority and yet (appear to) be so ignorant. It's certainly revived his career.

Tonight the Lou Dobbs question of the night, "How angry are you that the government will grant 65,000 H1-B Visa's while 80,000 Americans have lost their jobs." This is a retarded question in so many ways. It does nothing to explain the process built into the H1-B system where every job has to be advertised for an American; it doesn't explain the invaluable contributions that those H1-B workers make, or the taxes they pay. On the most basic level, it doesn't even address the fact that the jobs lost and the jobs gained are not equivalent!

Let's just call this mindless journalism the O'Reilly effect. The more, I watch, the more I realize the whole thing is a scam.