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Baby held responsible for 7-11 robbery.
President kidnapped from in front of grocery store.
17 year old kid to lead country to war.
Sensationalism, Sensationalism, Sensationalism.
Call it yellow press, tabloid news, or pulitzer-prize winning
material. it is the stuff the brave new world is made of. We thrive on
information which has nothing to do with us. We want to know what is
happenning to 74-year-old bingo players in Florida. We like war. We
like peace. We like death. We like life.
We want headlines.
What is with this dreaded thirst for news? The news which we get
has absolutely nothing to do with us. In all frankness, I am not so
affected by brush fires in wichita or robberies in quebec that I must
learn of it from a slew of media vendors. a common example at the moment
of people receiving an overflow of useless information is the clinton
thingie in washit-town.
For one thing, far too many people have far too many soapboxes.
Cable news, wire news, radio news (AM, FM, shortwave?), television news
(broadcast alone). Newspapers, magazines, tabloids (they shouldn't even
count as magazines). Then word of mouth.
Back in the day, word of mouth was pretty much the only way news
got around. People in one country wouldn't hear of a death in another
part of the world. And so they were happy. Ignorance is Happiness, to
an extent. Sure, word wouldn't get around to australia that there was a
polio vaccine. crocodile dundee wasn't all that great, anyways.
But maybe it would.
News of great importance usually manages to get to those it
touches.
Introducing a semi-new concept, I introduce the Worldly Bubble.
The Worldly Bubble is defined as what we see and hear and all
that. When we introduce the world (woes, troubles, and wars) into our
Worldly Bubble, we get so much to sift through that it becomes impossible
to eat a burger without thinking of the poor ethopian boy, Ngopopo. We,
in turn, let ourselves be so moved by Ngopopo that we turn our Worldly
Bubble into a mirror of the other-Worldly Bubbles.
Famine, Hunger, Death, Civil War for Ngopopo!
That, or we turn ourselves into apathetic mass media-hating
mongrels. I don't care about the kids, beat the seals, bomb the
cambodians! See if I care!
And then there are the rare gems of Worldly Bubbles. The ones who
get off their fat Fritos-eating asses, jump on their own soapbox, and
actually rally a crowd up. they get them so foamy at the mouth and so
teary eyed that they raise donations for the food, for the boxes, for the
clothes, for the plane and the pilot to fly the relief supplies across the
world to ethiopia and feed that starving child. at least they tried.
Maybe they succeeded. Maybe Ngopopo turned into a civil rights leader
in the country he was exiled in to. Maybe he made a change for the better
and actually changed the governments and made it better so his people
wouldn't BE starving and wouldn't BE dying. Maybe he did what those
Twinkie eating lard asses did and he changed the system, not just oiled
the squeaky gear.
As heart warming as the story is, I made it up. There is no
Ngopopo (okay, now, all at once -- "awww!!!")
My point, as deluded and self-defying as it is, is that I would
rather see more world news and less local news in the mass-mass-media
circuits.
Local bradcast news < PEZ
(Eh. but what isn't?). Anyways. yeah.
I'd rather eat my burger than watch the Red Shoe Diaries of a
local politician. Viva la thirty-nine cent Wednesdays! Or something.
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!! (c) !LA HOE REVOLUCION PRESS! HOE #464, WRITTEN BY: REFLECKS - 1/27/99 !!