Or... WTF is America's Mainstream Media Worth in the Real World!
Over the last few days and or news cycles, headlines capturing and captivating US media consumers were limited to the titillating tales of randy Secret Service and military personnel. Despite the fact that President Obama faced serious challenges to US interest concerning trade, drug policy and Cuba's inclusion in world affairs by Latin American states, US media outlets featured the salacious over the substance.
Even the glaring rift that was exposed between the US and Israel over the P-5 plus 1 talks with Iran yielded little more than cursory attention by the purveyors near meaningless infotainment. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blasted the weekend's efforts as a "freebie" to Tehran by allowing the Iranians another five weeks of negotiations.
This forced President Obama to retort: "The notion that somehow we've given something away or a 'freebie' would indicate Iran has gotten something. In fact, they've got some of the toughest sanctions that they're going to be facing coming up in just a few months if they don't take advantage of these talks." This was the real news!
During his closing press conference with Columbian President Juan Manual Santos, Barack Obama went on to defended his continued push for a diplomatic resolution to the dispute over Tehran's nuclear ambitions, saying he refused to let the talks turn into a "stalling process," but believed there was still time for diplomacy. Surly a dispute between the primary proponents of continued middle east conflict warranted more coverage than America's media found time to offer.
As the free-trade agreement between the US and Columbia was being proclaimed as a win all-around, it was also being denounced back home by labor leaders. Still, even this relevant and newsworthy story drew little if any notice as all eyes and imaginations we're directed to the lewd and lascivious natures of a few horny jugheads. Adding to the embarrassment, Cartagena Interior Minister Nausicrate Perez said "The inappropriate conduct of the Americans, it has overshadowed us a little."
With all the critical talks, negotiations and relationship building, the sum total of the Summit of the Americas is a sex tale and how to hook up with legalized prostitution in Columbia. While the safety and security of the President of the United States is and always should be paramount, its clear the American media is milking this distraction for all its worth to their bottom-lines.
The fact that Israel's constant nudging the US toward war with Iran could impact the price of gas, the fact that US Labor is concerned with trade deals hurting US wages and the fact that the international community feels US drug policies are backward, expensive and unproductive, seems of little consequence when a scantily clad hottie is competing for one's consideration.
As long as sex sells, one can always count on the US media to pimp it at the expense and exclusion of what enquiring minds really need and want to know.
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