With this extra time it's hard to avoid the influx of news - or pseudo news. I kept saying I was avoiding the TV news but I did find myself eavesdropping on the Today Show and I almost never enjoyed it for various reasons..I think it came to a head when Matt Lauer (pre deer accident) was interviewing Michael Phelps (the big deal swimmer who made post-Olympic news by being photographed smoking some kind of illegal stuff). I knew the question was going to be asked but the interviewer persisted like he was in the gestapo as IF this mattered in the course of life's events. I think they just went on to one of their other stories which usually consists of the following elements: A mobile home park in rural America or anywhere in Florida, a missing kid (usually a girl), a babysitter who once dated the father, a mother whose reactions are questioned, a grandma wearing an oversized sweatshirt, a toothless uncle or aunt and a local policeman who is always asked this question by the Today show --- " Is it unusual for that five-mile area to have 46 registered sex offenders??" The answer never matters..
So I may have to be more vigilant about my news boycott. Besides the financial status pessimism the other stories consist of medical doom and gloom. Is it even possible NOT to have one of these ailments or think you do? (I know it's my tendancy).. so, again, to continue the boycott IF I DO watch some TV I am going right to the Hogan's Heros marathon. It's a nice safe, warm feeling those fun-filled Nazi prison camps.. And, boy that Col. Klink was so realistic!! (HE could have been kinder to Michael Phelps)..
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