Not that I want to harp much longer on my apparent screaming media fascination but hey, the past week has provided ample sound bites to back up my tongue-in-cheek theory.

You remember? South Carolina Republican House rep Joe Wilson hackles the US president during a major public speech, tennis-great Serena Williams looses it on the court, and rapper-extraordinaire Kanye West opts to rudely interrupt a major video awards show snatching the micro in the middle of a peer’s acceptance speech.

Today, the L.A. Times asks “What’s With All The Public Outburst?” echoing my previous “What’s With All the Screaming?” posts.

I leave it to others to judge whether any of such in-your-face rudeness is indeed the result of underlying racism and / or increasing loss of civility.

But I can’t help but think that years of unrelenting interruption-style television has done its part to “fuel the fire” of what the LA Times today calls a “serious case of impulse control disorder”.

CNBC, CNN, FOX, you name it – it seems the string of loud-noise cable TV anchors and their talking heads guests have been active, willing participants in crafting a noticeable shift in public dialog.

It helps if publicly elected individuals, sports icons, and entertainment celebrities do it, too, making yelling at others and one another seems increasingly acceptable and cool!

Be it as it may, more inappropriate behavior in front of running cameras begets more coverage begets more audience begets more running cameras, and so forth.

The anthesis of Walter Cronkite style-television if you will.

S/he screams the loudest is the rightest?