Stone Soup by Jan Eliot for September 19, 2021

Sigh. Remember Edward R Murrow? When there WAS a local paper and it had CAREFULLY RESEARCHED articles as well as the “if it bleeds it leads” stories? (sigh).

I’m with Max. Ignore the news, play with blocks.

Flip through the channels, every night never changes what gets me is the 20 minutes spent with the weather guy or gal with charts, graphs and all sorts of special weather effects.

Y2K, scared the powers that be into replacing almost all of our hardware and consolidated over 100 applications into seven. The company at that time consisted of seven undigested acquisitions; they were assimilated. Good times.

I really don’t care why some famous couple is divorcing or that some NFL player is gay. Isn’t that their business, not mine? I guess I just don’t get the whole over sharing thing.

I always have at least three screens lit before me — the local weather people all appear to be identical.

For the national news the “mouse” network comes across as more concerned with gossip.

The news has turned into entertainment and unfortunately, it’s us versus them divisive entertainment designed to cater to already established views.

I read my news so I can skip to what I want to know, or choose to read something I normally wouldn’t.

Ah, but those were the days when the audience actually cared about truth and content in reporting.

♪♫ Kick ‘em when they’re up, kick ‘em when they’re down…♪♫

https://youtu.be/YHimia_Fxzs

I haven’t had a TV for many years – I have other ways of staying informed about the latest news-worthy catastrophes.

The last panel sounds about right- but most major news stations would only carry that kind of news if it was about the side they don’t support. Forget neutral bias today!

The year 2000 problem!!

OMG, a distant memory.

I was part of the solution to that, at least here in the northeast for publishers.

I worked at EBSCO publishing in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The year 2000 problem was huge for publishers because almost all existing software only allowed the last 2 digits of the year. So, 1945 was shown as 45. The problem was that 00 would probably be interpreted by most existing software as 1900, not 2000. So, 1/1/2000 would be seen by existing software as 1/1/1900.

Of course, the dawn of January 1, 2000, finally dawned, and there were no problems!

Why? Because we had used the years between the mid 1990s and 1/1/2000 to fix the year 2000 problem in advance.

It is the public who makes the news to give stations news to report, if public did the responsible life style there be no news to report. As for Max he is too young to even bother with the news.

I don’t care… who put what where… or who would bare… her butt and boobs. TV news is incomplete… In real life, they can’t compete… For stories full… so rarely dull… watch YouTube.

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