[Mishmash] Why I Don't Watch "The news"

[Hugh Gigante]

At 07:33 AM 8/2/09, you wrote:


Hugh - I know exactly what you mean. When there's no news, "they" create
some.  A couple years ago my next door neighbor had friends visiting from
away - her mother was very ill in hospital and rather than pay high fees at
a motely, they brought their very respectable looking motor home and parked
it in front of my neighbor's house.  It was there in the evenings and when
they wern't at the hospital - they certainly caused no trouble.  Except
another neighbor didn't like looking out her window and seeing the camper
there - she got the police involved who said they wern't breaking any laws. 

Then she got a local t.v. station involved and they milked this for all it
was worth for days - there was an "on the street" interview with neighbors -
except the only neighbor they interviewed was the one bitching.  They did a
survey on their web site as to whether campers should be allowed to park on
residential streets - it went on and on.  I've never watched news on that
station since, having seen how they operate.

I do listen to Fox News on satellite radio - fascinating watching the most
famous  democracy in the world being morphed into a socialist.

Not socialist . . ."Nanny State" . . .just a logical progression from 20+
years of moving children through school based on making them feel good
rather than actually learning anything into a workplace where people don't
earn jobs based on skill but on quota filling requirements.

BTW I firmly believe Al Quada has attached the US twice . . . 9/11/01, and
election day, 2008.

Hugh