Why Focus On The Unimportant?

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Why Focus On The Unimportant?

By Brooks A. Mick, M.D.
Feb. 20, 2006

I have been thinking, which is not all that unusual despite what you may think.

With all the important things going on in the world, why does the media focus on news items which are, in the grand scheme of things, insignificant?

For example, why are they wasting paragraphs and pages and magazine covers and devoting weeks to the Dick Cheney hunting accident? Whenever the media is spending inordinate amounts of time on some item which has absolutely no importance, as yourself "why?"

The answer is that it is simply a handy distraction from dealing with what is really important but which would hurt their guys in the political arena.

Back during the Clinton impeachment and its run-up, the media focused on Linda Tripp and her taping of Monica's conversations, but this was to distract from what Monica had actually said and its implication for the guilt of their boy in the White House. It also distracted from the reports of Juanita Broadderick, Kathleen Willey, and others.

So why the focus on an unimportant hunting accident? I'll tell you. It serves to keep the public's attention off news items they would otherwise have to cover. For example, Al Gore's treasonous jaunt to the Middle East wherein he inflamed anti-American sentiment through reams of lying charges about mistreatment of Arabs. It distracted from Bill Clinton's trashing the First Amendment, claiming that the anti-Muslim cartoons in Danish papers should have be censored. (How many left-wing wackos care that Clinton wants to censor while Bush allows anyone to disagree as much as they want?) It distracted from two Iraqi generals' statements tnat Saddam had WMD and disposed of them before the invasion. It distracted from the rise in political fortunes of Republican black politicians such as Condoleezza Rice, Ken Blackwell, Keith Butler, and Michael Steele.

Whenever you see the media focusing on the unimportant, it si to serve as a distraction. That's the time to look around to see what's really important.

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About the author Brooks A. Mick: Physician, still practicing medicine but retired from the US Army. Write just for the fun of it, but working on novel in the vein of Tom Clancy's politico-military genre.

Email: brooks15@cox.net

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