I do feel that we have an apathetic society. I do feel that it is the media who decides what will outrage us or not. Given the many incidents in which Bush should be impeached, if one dares call for it as Rosie O’Donnell did, other media pundits go ballistic. Yet given the facts in evidence you do not hear coming from every news organization that President Bush should be impeached. Another way to prove our apathy is the percentage of registered voters that actually do vote. In the presidential elections roughly half bother to show up to the polls. Pathetic!
In our society for better or worse horrific language sells and Rap music brings in millions and millions of dollars annually to the record industry. My guess is that folks like to listen to it. I do believe that human psychology what it is that some do have a dark side and this is what they wish to listen to. That is their right. So, how does one confront media giants that depend upon these sales revenues to bring decency back? It is not done by any agency or government official; it has to come from the public. We have to be the ones to say, we will not purchase these CDs anymore. The same goes towards movies and what we listen to on the radio as well as what we watch on TV. You don’t like it, don’t buy it.
During the 1980s, Tipper Gore voiced her outrage of “sexually explicit and violent content of rock music lyrics, a self-styled crusade in the mid-1980's that earned her the enmity of many in the music industry. At the time, Frank Zappa, the musician, branded her as a "cultural terrorist" and dismissed her effort as a "housewife-hobby project." But she defended this strategy and I do believe it at least gives parents a fighting chance when children are confronted with raw music. Notice how it was received by the music industry? They did not like anyone attacking the millions they make off of this music. If you do not like what is coming into your homes via the airwaves and now the Internet; block it. Do not rely on the government since you may not like the outcome.
While in my first column addressing this issue, in which I did hear from others mirroring my opinion to take off everyone we find objectionable. One person may not find objectionable what another does. For better or worse in which I believe the latter, Ann Coulter’s book, “Godless: The Church of Liberalism” was on the NY Times bestseller list. I cringed at that fact, but she does have her supporters out there. So you see not everyone feels as I do or you do of who should appear on television and get to sell books. If you do not like Ann’s books, just do not buy them and make sure you write her publisher as well as the bookstores that sell them.
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