Several months ago, I bitched about the empty-headed celebrity chitchat that passes for “news” on NBC’s Today show. My complaints are usually ineffectual, and this was no exception: my wife still watches Today on the bedroom TV every morning. Then as now, as I brush my teeth in the adjoining bathroom, I’m an involuntary listener.
The other morning I listened, aghast, as a female Today reporter interviewed a beauty industry shill representative about the “anti-aging process” and how some product or other could initiate that process.
So I have a question: don’t NBC and Today have some degree of responsibility to report reality, or at least alert viewers when quacks and charlatans present falsehood as fact?
But hey, I haven’t been paying much attention to medical developments lately. Maybe those wacky South Korean researchers have actually discovered how to prevent aging. If so, please disregard the above entry.
And if it is true, can someone tell me how to get my hands on some of that stuff?
Update (1/1/06): My friends inform me that Today isn’t a news show, it’s an entertainment show. My bad. But even so. . . .