Where is that Malaysia Airlines Plane? But first a word from our sponsors

Turn on the television lately and all you’re going to hear is a lot of speculation about that missing Malaysian jetliner. Of course I am in full support mode for the potential victims of the crash…or whatever happened with the plane. But America’s twenty-four hour a day media blab machine just can’t seem to get enough of this story. Isn’t it reassuring that Fox and CNN and all those talk radio folks are so concerned with the safety of the passengers? The outcome of their terrible ordeal?

No, actually they’re not and it’s more than just a disgrace. It’s an embarrassment for American. Every time something like this happens, the media machine revs up for what it hopes will be a long, drawn out crisis. Nothing stirs the pot or gets the media-mogul adrenalin flowing like a good, juicy story with the possibility of lots of blood and terror.

Let’s be frank about the media’s love of this kind of thing: stories like this get the coffers filled, and in the long run, these stories pay the salaries for the weather girls and feed the year-end bonuses for all those “executives” who are just too busy to divvy out airtime to subjects that have real importance to the citizens of America.

You know something odd is afoot when even crusty old Bill O’Reilly sides with us. The other night he opined that the media should hang their collective heads in shame...or something along those lines (it’s sometimes hard to figure out what Bill is really getting at).

At a time when American troops are still engaged in foreign countries where there lives are put in daily danger, and at a time when unemployment is still a major issue for millions of Americans, isn’t it time to put away all the useless speculation about “the mystery” of the Malaysian jet’s disappearance. The answers to that mystery may never be known or they may be known tomorrow morning. That will be a story.

Will the media be as interested in the end of the story as they are in the beginning and middle of it?

Probably not.