I need to learn to Just Say No. The next time I’m tempted to watch the evening news on commercial television, I will remind myself of the headlines that began last night’s ABC World News Tonight :
~ Multiple Fatalities in Fatal Plant “Rupture”And without a headline: “And we remember a jazz great tonight.”
~ Pilot Declares Medical Emergency During Landing
~ Massive Home Blast Rocks Neighborhood
~ 30+M Under Dangerous Flood Threat
~ Trump Visits Doctor Amid Iran Tensions
~ CDC Seeking Volunteers for Ebola Screening
~ Critical Senate Race Runoff
~ Knicks Await Final Opponent
~ Urgent Search For Children
~ Bounce House Scare
~ Woman Killed by Umbrella
~ Teenager Bitten by Shark While Fishing
~ America Strong
I gave up after the bounce house. (No children were in the house.) I checked this morning and saw that the America Strong segment, about a kid who faltered while singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at a softball game (and, surprise, the crowd helped him out) ran for 1:46. Sonny Rollins got seventeen seconds. And not much of “the world” in that news at all.
And events at the immigrant detention center Delaney Hall got nothing. (Is it a concentration camp yet?)
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Rarely do I watch you tube Corporate news, but I watched that! How odd! The anchor man with his intense rumble voice , the studio , dark and foreboding, and the pure smack -you- in- the- face rat-a-tat "news". What a load of crap, eh?
I won't be doing that again!
I had similar thoughts as I perused the news over the last 24 hours. As an American living in Germany, I use Pressreader to keep up on a bunch of different magazines and newspapers (I read in english, german, and french), accessible for free via my library here. I mention that because it allows me to very quickly peruse the front pages of dozens of different papers in different countries, and only one paper (Libération) had Rollins on the front page, and I asked myself - why am I not reading Libération more often rather than these other papers that don't seem to place value on the same things that I do?
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