Bruce, the press thing is also quite true. A nation of shleeple, sold on the sensational. A kid disappears, and if he fits the right “model” it becomes national news– the hundreds a day that show up missing every day who do NOT “play with the press”, get NO attention. 30,000 killed by guns every year and only about 4 get press. 43,000 PLUS killed by cars, half by drunk drivers- and it hardly plays, unless the story gets a high “sales”score.
Tragedies like the Gulf spill are also not rare, human or “natural” in nature, but short attention span theater misses the boat on most.
Bruce, the press thing is also quite true. A nation of shleeple, sold on the sensational. A kid disappears, and if he fits the right “model” it becomes national news– the hundreds a day that show up missing every day who do NOT “play with the press”, get NO attention. 30,000 killed by guns every year and only about 4 get press. 43,000 PLUS killed by cars, half by drunk drivers- and it hardly plays, unless the story gets a high “sales”score.
Tragedies like the Gulf spill are also not rare, human or “natural” in nature, but short attention span theater misses the boat on most.