Just because I am not paying attention to the world today, does not mean the president has the same luxury...
Sometimes when I turn on the teevee machine, all I see is one story, on and on. Eventually I tune out, especially as people have nothing new to add to the prevailing narrative. I guess it costs corporate money to report more, plus we run the risk of an educated voting populace. Can't have that. Look at this shiny object over here...Ever notice how fast the flotilla story was replaced by Helen Thomas, and then dropped?
Sometimes the story is important, such as the oil tsunami in the Gulf, but even then you get the impression nothing else important is happening in the world. Other times it is Van der Sloot - I'd care, if his victims didn't seem disproportionately elevated over, say, dead mine or oil rig workers, dead migrants, dead flotilla humanitarians, toxic Chinese villages, etc - killed not by a sick young man, but a sick world paradigm.
Sometimes even signing on to kos is the same predictable experience, sadly - am thankful for diary rescues (where do I send recs?) and overnight news diaries. So, maybe you'll read this, maybe not,. but I'm just saying....
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