..out of the dark

There's.. some ambivalent noise going on around the Nobel's Peace prize that I found interesting. Either people say the prize is not deserved, or they say Obama is great, but still does not deserve it for not doing anything /yet/. The main narratives are all looking inwards, in other words.

Also, Slate recently had this printed. Slate.

"Ignore Fox"

http://www.slate.com/id/2232563/pagenum/all/

That Rupert Murdoch may skew the news rightward more for commercial than ideological reasons is somewhat beside the point. What matters is the way that Fox's successful model has invaded the bloodstream of the American media. By showing that ideologically distorted news can drive ratings, Ailes has provoked his rivals at CNN and MSNBC to experiment with a variety of populist and ideological takes on the news. It's Fox that led CNN's Lou Dobbs to remodel himself into a nativist cartoon. It's Fox that led MSNBC to amp up Keith Olbermann. Fox hasn't just corrupted its own coverage. Though its influence, it has made all of cable news unpleasant and unreliable.

I have missed some conscious analysis on how and why this type of news-coverage - catering to target-groups to the exclusion of everything else - can influence the debate and the political landscape. So actually reading something like this in Slate is a bit of a shock.

But yes. This is about looking inwards, and finding a real reason to be proud of your country. Instead of just telling yourself that everything is fucking fine. And that is something I wish became more common. ..that's the prophecy we seek, to borrow a phrase. :/ So is that really wrong? To cling on to a thought like this until it becomes true?