I've taken an unscheduled break from blogging due to some creeping crud that both my wife and I have picked up.
This thing is like the worst cold and flu and it has now hung on for 9 days. I see the doctor in the morning and hopefully, I will be on the mend.
In the meantime, go back, check up, leave a comment and keep checking back. As soon as I feel better blogging will continue.
6 comments:
Get well soon, sir.
While you're under the weather, be sure to read today's "Box" column at the bottom of page one in today's Flint Journal. I smell a pulitzer with this one!
Turns out some children in a Connecticut grade school were suspended for selling candy.
Gee, after reading such a hard-hitting story, I am having trouble understanding why newspapers are losing readership.
I guess that whole thing in Darfur must have cleared itself up.
Hello Pop, I do understand that you and Your wonderful wife are not feeling so hot but know this: We need you to continue your bloging. Your Eldest
Kevin:
That story was featured on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and included appearances by the mother and son in studio at many of those venues.
How this even ranks as a story escapes me, but that is the new journalism.
Find someone who is a "victim" and ratchet up the coverage.
The school had a rule about not selling candy in school. The kid bought candy and obviously someone overreacted. Big deal.
We have a world in turmoil, governors being naughty boys, a major looming political race and what do we get?
Extensive coverage on a boy in trouble over Skittles candy.
I get why it was a news story, but it was elevated beyond all sense of proportion.
Thanks for the kind words, a little Chicken Soup and I should be fine.
Hi son,I'm better now and back to blogging.
Dad
What bothers me most about stories like these is the way that some in the media, as well as some of its consumers, try to present the story as an example of some bigger imagined social ill. For example, a story about an outrageous lawsuit will be held up as an example of "how our legal system is failing", when in fact, the suit is eventually thrown out for lack of merit, showing that in fact, the system is working, albiet slower than some would like.
In a world of billions of people, even the craziest urban myths could have happened to somebody, somewhere, but those stories are presented as just that; crazy stories. In a world of billions of people, somebody, somewhere is overreacting to some kids selling Skittles in school. This fact alone doesn't make this story any more worthy of coverage.
In the meantime, whenever I see pointless stories like that, it just makes me want to go to www.Google.com/news and seek out the important stories that are being missed.
Hello Pop, Im happy to read you and your wonderful wife are doing better. I just love you two and hold you in my prayers. I love ya, Your Eldest
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