tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250690842086280058.post7464807771425387812..comments2013-06-29T15:21:38.480-04:00Comments on letters moving.: WARNING: Rambling Post to FollowAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02170034821653763034noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250690842086280058.post-74614614191422400082009-07-18T00:51:40.032-04:002009-07-18T00:51:40.032-04:00hmmm, found your blog somehow?? oh yeah, through y...hmmm, found your blog somehow?? oh yeah, through your response at PW's site!<br /><br />Anyway, love the photos of your adorable little girl, my little girls are awfully grown up and married....<br /><br />I just wanted to say that I agree with your "Rambling Post". You spoke from my heart too... Lord help us all...Lost in Paperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08282245214262487120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8250690842086280058.post-15592211846394750992009-07-11T20:59:11.834-04:002009-07-11T20:59:11.834-04:00Not that this comment will surprise many people, b...Not that this comment will surprise many people, but Wife - I love you. Thanks for posting this.<br /><br />As you know (because you hear it almost every day), I, too, have a problem with this sort of infotainment. <br /><br />I was a little kid when the 24 hour news channels started doing their thing. I think that in the beginning, the aim was to have constant access to news no matter when the viewer had the opportunity to tune in.<br /><br />Lately, it seem like we feel that America's ADD is gradually getting - OHH! A Bowflex! - worse, and that the only way to adapt is to invent something called "entertainment news".<br /><br />I think that strictly speaking, that which is new is news, but let's face it - not everything that is new deserves to be reported on a national broadcast. Michael Jackson's death could easily have been handled by radio DJs. Yes, this is sad for odd, obsessed people out there. Yes, he's sort of the first of a generation of stars to die (I had this pointed out by someone of "that generation". I didn't fact check. Don't hold me to it).<br /><br />And yet, when "entertainment news" comes ahead of a MILITARY COUP, then clearly, producers should be fired, "journalists" should be censured for lack of backbone, and the station should lose it's broadcasting license. Or maybe that's just my feeling on it.<br /><br />If you want real news, tune in to News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS. Like all pure news, on most average nights, it will bore your eyes out of their sockets. And yet, you get information unadulterated by "entertainment news".<br /><br />And now I'm done. On this blog, at least.<br /><br />Your odd, yet loving husband,<br />-Conrad-Conrad Golbovhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13681106872258020149noreply@blogger.com