Over the last two days, news media have made very very sure -- to the point of program interrupting news bulletins for one of 'em -- that I was aware how the criminal trial of Sean "I have an enormous number of nicknames" Combs came out, and that another group of Men With A Theory are launching a brand new search for the remains of Amelia Earhart, Fred Noonan and their airplane.
Precisely why I should be concerned about the unsavory and at least partially criminal sex life of a celebrity -- a thing as statistically predictable as the sun rising in the east for as long as there have been celebrities -- and one more search for a lost aviator (she's dead, guys, and so is he) is a mystery to me. There's a huge, tragic mess in Gaza, Iran may or may not presently have a viable nuclear weapons program,* U. S. Domestic politics are getting crazier, our government is building straight-up concentration camps and treating one of the most outrageous examples as a no-humans-involved occasion for levity and Congress is in the process of pushing through a massively unpopular bill that is certain to have far-reaching effects, but I need to be told about the titillating details of what the rich and famous get up to behind closed door, and that the sons and grandsons of the same kinds of men who misplaced her are going to go digging for whatever's left of a famous aviator and her slightly less famous crewman?
No. I do not. There's actual serious grownup news to be reported and it would be damned nice if they'd act like it.
I'm not holding my breath.
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* Fission, fusion, or-- One of the things that frets me is that a desperate and fanatical government with a smashed-up atom-bomb program probably still has loads and loads of nasty stuff with a long half-life, and a dusting of that on enemy territory does both immediate and lasting harm. Dust and wind being what they are, most nations won't risk the fallout (other than as an add-on oopsie to actual nuclear war, at least). Iran, however, is not most nations, and they have a history of funding groups even more heedless of consequences.
Well, they clickbaited enough to get your attention enough that you have taken the time and effort to comment on it . . . so they see that as a win and will continue to do so. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThe sad reality is these days, the big news outlets can safely report on unimportant stuff, because they won't be under the threat of lawsuit, arrest, or deportation.
ReplyDeleteThe Paramount/CBS extortion payment to the Regime is pathetic. The unwillingness of large institutions (with money) to fight against the tyranny of the Regime is also pathetic. We cannot depend on checks and balances because the fix is in across the board. There is so much damage yet to occur before the mid-terms.
I was worried we would end up in a war the first time around. It's obvious to me that the guardrails worked back then. Now that the guardrails are gone, I fear the worst is yet to come.