Friday, December 09, 2005

Regarding the Poem ...
I posted in the previous post. It was prompted both by the death of Rigoberto Alpizar and by the reporting about the incident. Well, mostly by the reporting...

It appears we have this predeliction for sticking our noses into other's tragedies, but we don't really want to feel anything about it. We just want to know what happened and what everyone thinks. We want opinions not emotions...

"Just the Facts, Ma'am" as Joe Friday of the 50's TV show Dragnet used to say. "Just the Facts". Certainly, don't bring any feelings into this. And if we do, lets just talk about them...

Unfortunately, it appears we never get to "just the facts".
With 24 hour news channels, and very few "noteworthy" tragedies other than war and war's ancilliary events to cover, what I see is: few "facts" are presented but an avalanche of opinion and conjecture comes forward. Just an observation, but it appears that most of the "news" is driven by fear rather than a true connection with what is actually going on.

What is it we are learning here? "Just the Fear, Ma'am, just the fear".
What is it we are learning here? "Just the Fear, Ma'am, just the fear"!

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