If the media had a face where their upper ass is, I'd punch them in the nose. When the dissemination of information becomes a sales job, it's time to stop. An uninformed public might be better than a misinformed public. Remember back when everyone wanted you to be scared because, "This hurricane season is going to be worse than the last one!" It must be true, right? There was a sound bite from an actual scientist/aspiring-actor.
What bothers me is that I get the sense that they WANT the hurricane season to be worse than the previous. I pick up this tone in their voice that says, "Well, it WAS a category five, but it lost a little power over the barrier islands. Bummer. Back to you, Tom." "Thanks, Dan. I agree. Major bummer. Go see if you can find something broken and we're going to switch to another reporter who got a shot of an actual dead baby." "Cool. For channel 3 news, I'm Dan Danger. Back to you, Tom."
You know, when I first started writing this post, it was going to be a song about childhood memories of freshly-baked apple pie. I'm not sure where I went wrong.
Hello, friends. What's up?
Later. Love.
