We're just plain stupid.

I've worked in the news business most of my life. And that's taught me something. Don't trust the news media. They get it wrong much of the time. Or incomplete. Oh, so many, many news sources. And so many, many slants. We're ill-informed. We form opinions without the facts. And we don't take the time to become knowledgeable. We're too busy. Living our lives. That's too bad. So many of our opinions are based on sound bites. In essence, we're being told what to believe. In rather shallow terms. But calculated to turn us into robots. We buy products because of 30-second commercials. We even buy a political candidate by judging whether we'd want to sit down and have a beer with him. Issues don't matter. We even vote against our own best interests because we don't know any better. We're just plain stupid. --Jim Broede