The Huffington Post published a blog or something about the classic Rudolph claymation cartoon with the click bait worthy title “Viewers Noticed Some Very Disturbing Details In ‘Rudolph the Red-Nosed’ Reindeer.'” The blog was merely a reposting of twenty tweets from random folks who had relatively funny takes on certain parts of the movie. One of my favorites: “Fireball has the gall to make fun of Rudolph’s nose when he is the only one with hair.” If you remember Fireball, this is pretty funny. Other than the twenty tweets, there was almost nothing written about the show or even a summation of the tweets.

Everything else is pretty lame or not worthy of mentioning except this gem: “Ugh…..here comes Comet. The worst coach you’ve ever seen since on screen since the last move you ever watched about youth sports.” This tweet is relevant for its typos. Either a bot created the Huffington Blog post or an actual human scoured all four corners of the world wide web to find twenty tweets that were critical of the show. In other words, a teeny tiny group of people had something critically funny or simply critical of the classic Christmas show.

That didn’t stop Tucker Carlson from exaggerating the importance of the Huffington Post blog (again I don’t know what it is – an article, a blog, a post, a series of tweets?) to his three million viewers during his Fox News show on November 30th. I’ve heard Carlson was once a serious journalist but it predates my attention span so I’ve never seen it. But Carlson is not a serious journalist today. He’s not even a journalist, rather he peddles bullshit and nonsense to his paranoid viewership who still think Obama actually waged a real war on Christmas (Thanks Bill O’Reilly).

Here’s my point though. I am writing about this crap. I had to click the Huffington Post link to write my blog. I then spent two minutes watching Carlson’s segment. I also did a google search and clicked a few links that belong to NY Magazine and the Daily Caller to see what they had to say about the Adolf, I mean Rudolph controversy. Other links existed as well on other fringe media sites as they latched on to the fake story and when I did my “research” for this blog, I was exposed to about four dozen ads. And that’s the rub.

Modern “media” is in the money making business and this is one way they do it. The Boards of Directors for these “media” platforms don’t care that each of them are playing a small role in the degradation of America’s sanity. These fringe platforms don’t care about standards. Shit, even Fox News doesn’t give a rip. They’re all in the outrage business and the outrage business is profitable. You might even argue that I am trying to profit (no one pays me to read this btw) off the outrage by writing this blog.

Americans continue to complain about the media. It never stops. But for profit businesses follow the money. They make well vetted decisions based on what drives profit. Period. There’s a market for this trash. It’s your fault. You get the media you want and deserve.