Originally published October 9 2005
Expat takes a long look at the state of American media
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Radio personality Mike Rodgers finds much amiss with American talk shows, television and radio hosts, criticizing their inability to communicate about significant issues and their heavy reliance on inflammatory opinions to attract a listening audience.
A recent trip to the United States -- after a three-year absence -- showed me how far the country and its people have deteriorated in a short period of time.
These talking heads do this, of course, to make money, but the effect it has on the average listener is nothing short of devastating.
John Belushi is an easy example that comes to mind.
Thus, in modern America, talk show radio and TV is not about debating the issues of the day.
It doesn't happen because the structure of the Japanese language does not lend itself well to interruption when someone is speaking, and also because the Japanese are polite.
The sales point of the commercial boiled down to this: If you buy this car, then that tells your friends, 'I'm just a little better than you are.'
In Japan, I have never seen a sports game -- especially so-called "pick-up games" -- break down into fisticuffs.
In Japan, a guest is a guest.
Every once in a while we would pass through some small town -- the buildings decayed and shuttered, a shadow of what it once was.
Americans are always boasting about how they are the richest and the freest, etc., etc.
I cannot see any way out of the disaster you folks are headed for.
The problems are too numerous, the needed debate unheard, and the psyche already destroyed.
Mike (in Tokyo) Rogers [send him mail] was born and raised in the USA and moved to Japan in 1984.
He has the distinction of being fired from every FM radio station in Tokyo -- one of them three times.
His first book, Schizophrenic in Japan, is now on sale.
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