"All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy." -Wayne Dyer

Lately I've noticed a disturbing trend.

It's not easy figuring out what's going on in the world. The media is NOT forthcoming for a variety of reasons. They say, they're just catering to what 'the people' want. Maybe. Maybe they're just kowtowing to what their corporate sponsers want. Regardless, it's hard these days finding news of substance, unbiased, that has nothing to do with celebrities or economic woes.

The trend I find so disturbing is that 'news caster' (really a misnomer, should be called 'infotainers') are playing a little thing called 'the blame game'.

Here's what bugs me: the newscasters (or as I like to call them 'infotainers') are framing everything in terms of 'who's to blame?' Instead of simply reporting on an issue, giving us some actual information, they want to beat the dead horse of 'Whose fault is it that we're in this situation? Who's to blame for this?' They want to figure out blame, why? To punish? Hold someone accountable?

I guess in our era of 24 hour news on many, many stations, instead of actually reporting what's happening, to stretch it out, we have to hear the inane blathering of hybrid news casters/talk show hosts/cultural critics/morons. The non-stop static of their voices is sort of like adding bread crumbs to ground beef to make a meat loaf . . . It makes the meat seem more substantial.

At this point, the news is mostly breadcrumbs. And they're stale. And the meat might be tainted. And I'm full. And I'm a vegetarian anyway.

And don't think I'm pitting one station against another. . . they're all doing it. With the one exception of Jon Stewart, whose comedy show transmits more actual news in 23 minutes than all the other stations combined give out in 24 hours, I'm over it.

And why are we so quick to assign blame? Why don't we try to assign solutions? How do we get ourselves out of the messes we find ourselves in? How does someone turn their life around? How do we make our lives better? Why can't we look at that?

Unfortunately, the ratings are better for bad news. The ratings are better for humiliation. The ratings are better hunting down predators. The ratings are better in taunting the bad guys but not in actually catching the bad guy and bringing him to justice (er. .. Osama.) Whose fault is this? Who's to blame here? Well. .. my point exactly. Of course I'm showing the silliness of this by blaming others for blaming.

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Kenrick Cleveland teaches techniques to earn the business of wealthy clients using persuasion. He runs public and private seminars and offers home study courses and coaching programs in persuasion techniques.