This is the Statt Mann Baby!!  Time to Scatt a little bit.

There was a time, maybe when the world was still flat, that the media prided itself in NOT being part of the story.  Now there’s no question the news media is in the news myth business creating the stories it wants and calling it news.

Let’s ignore the insanity surrounding Danica Patrick at Daytona.  Even Danica wishes the Hyperbole Hordes would just go away so she could learn how to drive a stock car, assuming that’s her goal in the first place.

In the end, this is just more of the racing as entertainment discussion.  When the competition is second to the marketing, we’ve shown the ability to believe any myth if it’s repeated often enough.

When the media buys into the lie that everyone cares what it thinks, we all lose.  What’s especially lost is the idea that things are happening we should know about and there’s no one to let us know about them.

Instead we’re all drowning in gossip, rumor and myth.  Maybe it’s our fault because we don’t demand more.  As long as we’re buying the entertainment myth we’ll pay for anything.

Still, who ya’ gonna call?  Myth Busters?  That’s a busy signal these days.  Myth Busters is too busy creating the myths that will snag us like a trout down the road.

But we’ll be entertained, won’t we?

Peace.