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Originally Posted by Cobra Mgr
When can you watch sports these days and not have a bunch of blowhards giving their personal (often poorly informed) opinion, but sticking to reporting facts? I miss the days when commentary was restricted to the final segment of the broadcast.
All I want is for someone to tell me what happened. I can form my own opinion. This is why I rarely, if ever, watch sports talk shows. Give me news, not hot takes.
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Well, tombstones aside, I can't say that I disagree with you. It's part and parcel of the dumbing down of society which is a real phenomenon, not a generational thing.
Goddamned television and now social media are the worst in this regard. People flock, some of them complaining but doing so anyway, to be momentarily entertained rather than solidly informed. Whatever feels good now, you know? Short sound bytes, distorted faces, waving arms - titillation!
Taking it a step further, and being doomy and gloomy myself, it's the reason why I don't believe democracy is viable nor the natural state of man. Most people are basically too damned dumb for it survive and now that their dumbness is magnified exponentially by social media, it's headed for the trash heap.