Off the Cuff / My Other Journal

News

As the latest trend, the runaway bride, Michael Jackson in court, Jay Leno on the stand have taken the front row seats with the media against our more important national and regional health and safety issues, our country at war, world hunger, nuclear problem, etc., etc.

News media IS our brain power whether it lives up to this assignment or not. Then, why do we concentrate our brain power on news that involves only one or a few individuals and has nothing to do with our lives, our neighborhoods, our towns, our states, our country, or mankind in general?

I wonder who is to blame, the media itself (especially the TV), or those of us who encourage the media to broadcast titillating trivia?

One thing I have been doing nowadays is to turn off the TV news and scan and skim the news on the internet, hoping it is less corrupted. I may be wrong, but at least I feel I have disabled one arm of the fire spitting dragon from reaching me.