Enough Blame To Go Around

"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy." -Wayne Dyer

Lately I've noticed a disturbing trend.

Staying informed about the world isn't as easy as it used to be. You'd think it would be even easier because there are so many channels, so many newspapers,. . . but it seems like celebrity rehab and petty political infighting is all that's going on in the world (well, now we've got a few real estate issues and maybe a tiny bit of an economic problem). I know that there is news going on in the world and the information is out there, somewhere, but I am having a heck of a time finding it.

The disturbing trend I was referring to earlier is the way 'news casters' (or 'infotainers') are just wild about playing 'the blame game'.

What happens on the news shows is that within seconds of hearing a problem, the newscaster will ask, 'Tell me something, whose fault is it that we're in this situation? Who did wrong here? We need to figure out who to blame so we can either give them a token punishment or move on to the next issue.'

My guess is that in our era of 24 hour news on a multitude of stations, instead of actually reporting what might be happening in the world, they stretch the inane blathering of the hybrid newscasters/talk show hosts/cultural critics/morons. The non-stop static of their voices is sort of like adding bread crumbs to ground beef to make a meat loaf . . . It makes the meat seem more substantial.

At this point, the news is mostly breadcrumbs. And they're stale. And the meat might be tainted. And I'm full. And I'm a vegetarian anyway.

I'm an equal opportunity critic/cynic where this is concerned. With the exception of Jon Stewart (where more information is 'leaked' out in twenty-three minutes than in all the other stations combined over a twenty four hour period), I'm sick of all of these guys.

Our culture is so quick to assign blame without even attempting to assign solutions. When will we figure out how to get out of the messes we find ourselves in? Let's change the frame around a bit and look at that.

The ratings are better when the news is bad or humiliating or if it's about this one fighting with that one or if we can find a bad guy to taunt or hunt down (but maybe not capture . . .Osama, for example). Who's to blame here? Whose fault is this? Oops. .. I've just proven the point and blamed others for blaming.

About the Author

Kenrick Cleveland teaches strategies to earn the business of affluent clients using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion strategies.

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