Reply #84: My criticism is to "be Cautious." As we would with any "Media Folk" [View All]

[KoKo]

these days. And, to be aware of folks backgrounds because it does in some ways influence their lives...just as our own individual backgrounds influence us.

We overlook our Media Folks backgrounds because we either like or dislike what they say, but it's good to try to know the "whole person." For too long our Media has kept their private/personal lives to themselves while they rooted out every scandal or pimple on the folks they report on in politics and the entertainment world.

Given what we are all going through we need to know much more about our media and be aware that they "too" have things they bring to their reporting and punditry.

Would anyone rather not know that Chris Matthews owns down the street from Jack Welch (former NBC head) on Nantucket? Or, that White House Correspondent Nora O'Donnel is dating Repug Dan Senor of Iraq Invasion spokesperson fame? Or that Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan is married to Andrea Mitchell who reports for NBC and appears on Chris Matthews show or all the other connections between the media and WHO their Families were? How did they get where they are? The Media Controls our lives...shouldn't we know more about them? :shrug: