No News Is Good News
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 10:52 am
Allow me to go off topic here for a bit....Sorry in advance
I'm old.
So old that when being a kid, I was afraid for America.
And of course, being a kid, for my own mortality.
The neighbor next door was having a bomb shelter installed under his house. He told my Dad that he was crazy for not doing the same.
My Dad was both pragmatic and cheap.
If something hasn't happened, it hasn't happened. Being pro-active at the cost of $$$ was not a thought.
It was the Cuban missile crisis filling our news.
Russia was going to attack. It was true because that is what was reported.
It never happened.
Our neighbor spent a lot of money for what may have been the first real 'Man Cave'.
Fast forward to today.
The first four headlines I see today went something like this....
'Bracing for Another Covid Variant'
'Ukraine and NATO Await Russia Intent'
'Tom Brady Retiring?'
Major League Baseball in Jeopardy of Losing Games'
Shades of the past.
All four of these 'stories' are not stories at all.
They are all items that haven't happened yet.
Inflaming. Taunting. Worrying. And many more emotions stirred.
Being old, it's tiresome.
Let me focus on that last item.
Nobody on this earth knows if we will lose MLB games this season.
We could. Then again, we could not.
Why do these so-called reporters headline that it is a possibility?
Why not headline that NOT missing games is also a possibility?
Again, it is because they WANT to stir these emotions in us.
It's tiresome.
I commend both MLB and the Union for keeping their negotiations from the press.
When taking their problems to the press, it usually means that the two sides are truly upset with the other.
Since they aren't arbitrating through the press, the press feels it is their job to paint what they feel on the negotiations.
Thus, most of it is negative.
Like most 'news'.
Why report on the past when we can scare the bejeezus out of folks with the future?
C'mon Man.
Quit being tiresome.
I'm old.
So old that when being a kid, I was afraid for America.
And of course, being a kid, for my own mortality.
The neighbor next door was having a bomb shelter installed under his house. He told my Dad that he was crazy for not doing the same.
My Dad was both pragmatic and cheap.
If something hasn't happened, it hasn't happened. Being pro-active at the cost of $$$ was not a thought.
It was the Cuban missile crisis filling our news.
Russia was going to attack. It was true because that is what was reported.
It never happened.
Our neighbor spent a lot of money for what may have been the first real 'Man Cave'.
Fast forward to today.
The first four headlines I see today went something like this....
'Bracing for Another Covid Variant'
'Ukraine and NATO Await Russia Intent'
'Tom Brady Retiring?'
Major League Baseball in Jeopardy of Losing Games'
Shades of the past.
All four of these 'stories' are not stories at all.
They are all items that haven't happened yet.
Inflaming. Taunting. Worrying. And many more emotions stirred.
Being old, it's tiresome.
Let me focus on that last item.
Nobody on this earth knows if we will lose MLB games this season.
We could. Then again, we could not.
Why do these so-called reporters headline that it is a possibility?
Why not headline that NOT missing games is also a possibility?
Again, it is because they WANT to stir these emotions in us.
It's tiresome.
I commend both MLB and the Union for keeping their negotiations from the press.
When taking their problems to the press, it usually means that the two sides are truly upset with the other.
Since they aren't arbitrating through the press, the press feels it is their job to paint what they feel on the negotiations.
Thus, most of it is negative.
Like most 'news'.
Why report on the past when we can scare the bejeezus out of folks with the future?
C'mon Man.
Quit being tiresome.