But I learned first-hand how the news media operates by watching how they interpreted, changed, and misrepresented my intentions.

Satire and believability are irresistible to the news media.

Other times you can use a calendar to predict the kinds of stories the media is looking for.

So the fact that the media all jump on a story in a similar fashion is not surprising. The opposite, when a voice cuts through to say something different or original, is surprising.

abused by the typhoon of the news media.

We have currently a built-in allergy to unpleasant or disturbing information. Our mass media reflect this. But unless we get up off our fat surpluses and recognize that television in the main is being used to distract, delude, amuse, and insulate us, then television and those who finance it, those who look at it, and those who work at it, may see a totally different picture too late.