Dumbing down America?

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The Dumbing Down of America

(HT: Eat the Press) I try not to judge too harshly regular people who don’t keep up with obsess over Central Asia. I also like to think that reading mainstream publications should give people a reasonable grasp of the world, especially when big magazines like Time run stories about the Talibanization of western Pakistan.


Huh. This is along the same lines of how Newsweek was recently shown to treat its American readers with absolute contempt.


In other words, while it might be nice to learn about how American policy is failing in the country that actually attacked us on September 11, the mainstream glossies seem to think we’re more interested in lesbians who photograph celebrities and the Kansas Board of Education.

Not to say that the "religion in schools" issue isn't important (short answer: NO religion should be taught in school), but still...

And I don't expect the right-wing punditocracy to blame the "liberal media" for this or to even bring it up, since they replaced both covers that would make the current administration look bad with cover stories that support the supposed "family values" agenda of the right.

Granted, one comment spoke on the real reason:

I don’t think they hate America. I just think they love money more. It occurs to me that discussions of America’s foreign policy failures probably sell pretty well in Europe and Asia. Probably not so well at home– or perhaps it is believed they will not sell so well at home.

Sad, isn't it.