Why do media like CNN talk so much about health and nutrition, but never cover drug use in schools?
Isn’t ILLIGAL drug addiction a very serious health problem? By our silence are we saying it is socially exceptable? Is the left leaning media covering up the depth of the problem? Why the silence?
I’m always amazed at what they don’t want to talk about on CNN. They don’t like to talk about things that seem obvious. Or things that they don’t think would get a lot of people’s attention. For example, I live near Grambling, LA. And at Grambling University there is a shooting, on campus, at least once a month. There are drug arrests all the time there. Yet since it is a black school from Louisiana, it isn’t considered important enough to talk about on CNN.
Fink Ployd
8 Apr 10 at 11:35 am
You have watched very little outside of “entertainment” programming if you think the networks have ignored the problem of illicit drugs. Further, your comment “left leaning media” is absolutely meaningless. Lefties and liberals do not condone substance abuse any more than righties and fascists like the Bush administration. We all recognize how serious a problem substance abuse is.
There are, however, other problems just as serious and just as urgent. Malnutrition among school-aged children is one of them. Sex abuse of children by clergymen is another. Contamination of our water supplies and of our meats is another. So you tell me: shall we ignore the risk of mad cow disease and report exclusively on the dealing going down on the corner? Should we ignore increasingly threatening environmental degradation in favor of describing how your shlthead of a boyfriend does marijuana? Which problem shall we report and which shall we ignore?
wmayers99
8 Apr 10 at 11:49 am
Just to add to Mr. Mayers, who is on target in many of his remarks –
CNN needs ratings like any other outlet, and I would guess its audience skews a little older than normal. Therefore, it might skew a little old in its news coverage. It’s why the three main networks do a lot of stories about cancer and medicare on the nighty news, and skip over (relatively speaking) drug use. But the stories are certainly out there.
wdx2bb
8 Apr 10 at 12:01 pm