A cultural loss has occurred in the past decade. The common statement, as Ellen Ullman wrote, “Today I visited the museum of me, and liked it.” is an all too often a reoccurring soliloquy. There are three types of blogs that flood the internet with culturally irrelevant gossip. From the personal, too the vehement none discussions, too the over bearing and opinionated posts this once informational and useful web is now bogged down with this obsessive me-ness.

Another area in which culture no longer plays apart is the media. The non-media media coverage, of which you can now instantly be updated through pod casts was a recent discovery of mine. This brought many interesting and thought provoking topics up: the St. Charles, Missouri, attempted ban on cussing, a cross-dressing crook, the recent issue of candidate kissing as opposed to crying, a 48 year over due library book, and finally the German craze over polar bears. In this six minuet January 11 CNN “In Case You Missed It” pod cast few of these topics held any relevance to me personally.

The dumbing down of the American media could easily be remedied by “the clarification of the vague” This idea as proposed by George Sanders can be taken one step farther by asking, “What is the cultural relevance of this subject to the reader?” Not only will this continue to bring clarity to the reader, but it will help filter out the nonsensical such as a 48 year over due library book, for instance.