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Preemptive Strike
Do you remember the game that challenged you to look at a series of objects and determine which if the objects didn’t belong?
(I’ve always thought if it as a weird twist on the cliché guilt by association. In the case of that game, it’s innocence by association. But, I digress.)
Over the past week, I’ve felt a bit as if I were immersed in a live-action version of the game as provided by the media. Everywhere I’ve turned, there’s a story about students, schools, parents, and violence—or some combination thereof. (None of it seems to belong to the world in which I want to live.)
I wrote about how tired I am of the media circus surrounding Virginia Tech, and the backlash to this has been my own boycott of sorts of the news: when a story about the VT shootings plays, I change the channel or turn off the news.
Consequently, I have a very narrow concept of things right now: I have to avoid every news show that isn’t pure fluff. My knowledge base has been reduced to three basic issues:
- That Sanjaya guy has finally been voted off of American Idol.
- Alec Baldwin is proving that good parents do still exist.
- If I think I have it bad now, wait until this child has her baby and either of them ends up in one of my classrooms.
- The way I see it, the first issue is really not important.
- The second issue reveals so many things about parents and kids there isn’t time to explain.
- The third thing proves we need a society-wide rally against this child: she must be spayed before any damage can be done.
April 22nd, 2007 at 5:16 pm
Maybe what we now need is a society-wide rally not against the carrot (child) but against the person (management) who holds the stick (Maury/Imus/Limbaugh types) who holds the carrot (entertainment) that tempts the child (many, if not all of us). You know, the kind of mindlessness that allows management of all kinds to glorify and promulgate negativism masquerading as entertainment for the sake of ratings and profit margin.
Then too, when more viewers and listeners demand and support actual steak-content over sizzle-sensationalism, it might go a long way toward helping to improve future gene pools.
Time for reruns. How about starting with the movies Network and WUSA? Nah, that’s old hat. Been there done that. Ever tried to locate a copy of WUSA? Anyone?
April 22nd, 2007 at 5:27 pm
I just had another thought, sorry.
What if Bill Cosby spoke to ALL OF US, and no one listened? Oh, wait, that’s already happened hasn’t it? I’d best duck my head and go hide now. bye!
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