This morning's news review

I just finished my morning review of various news and political sites, and I am appalled at the vitriolic nature of the Op Eds and stories. Usually there are a lot of right-wing and left-wing rants, but at least a few moderate, thoughtful, informative pieces as well.  Not this morning. Besides Michael Moore protecting an accused rapist (Julian Assange), there are an unbelievable number of truly scurrilous attacks on Paul Ryan and about an equal number of equally scurrilous attacks on President Obama. (Interesting that Romney seems to be getting a bye this morning).

And what is really telling is that there are hardly any Op Ed pieces or stories dealing with ANY of the real issues we face - the deficit and debt, the economy, crumbling infrastructure, failing educational systems, etc. etc.  There is a lot of noise about Senate candidate Todd Akin's really dumb comment about rape (and Democratic attempts to claim that EVERY Republican thinks that way), and the continuing fact-free non-debate about who is really cutting Medicare.

I guess the point is that the regular on-line news media, and the print media, now appears about as intellectually undisciplined as all the flames and rants on the blogosphere and on talk radio.  That can't be a good sign.