href="http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20061104/cleisure/cleisure1.html">Elevating
trivia over substance
published: Saturday | November 4, 2006
There is a deepening triviality in the conduct of American politics,
which should be a matter of great concern to the citizens of the United
States. In this process, form trumps substance and minor side issues
are often the subject of long and tedious debate while fundamental
matters get shunted to the sidelines. It is a kind of politics that
finds congruence and context in this growing American notion of
'infotainment' and well-suited to the predilections of the purveyors of
mental sloth, the media pundits...
They were referring specifically to the flap caused by John Kerry's
comments, but it could just as well have been applied to 90% of the
crud that has been spouted by the politicians and their media in the
run-up to the election.
Leave it to the Jamaicans to put
href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4309752.html">Karl
Rove in his place. Our own newspapers aren't up to
the task.