Cable TV is unwatchable today. Networks that have spent no time at all investigating the insurrectionist kingpins are showing wall-to-wall coverage of a billionaire going part of the way to space so that millionaires can go part of the way to space.
Sometimes humans really suck.
Sometimes humans really suck.
When the super-rich engage in vanity projects intended only to serve the rich, the cable news networks cover it like it's a music festival. When the super-rich orchestrate an armed Insurrection against the American government, the networks focus on the arrests of...foot soldiers.
Branson didn't go to space as the news is reporting, doesn't pay the taxes he should, and isn't creating a service normal folks will be able to use in 50 years. Meanwhile, in the same country, hyper-rich/powerful Republicans are staging a slow coup that remains largely uncovered.
Meanwhile a new virus surge is happening due to the Delta variant and our government is at a standstill. How the hell is cable news so tone-deaf? Who's their audience? Next they'll talk about the midterms—but who cares, when our whole election system is under unrestrained attack?
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