We are in an entirely new communications environment. Nothing in the past ... not a celebrity's breasts, not a disease, not a cute cat ... has ever been hyped the way any of them can be today.
WOW!! Be still my heart!!! There is actual, REAL, bona fide SUNSHINE coming in my living room window!! *GASP* I think I’ve died and gone to heaven!
And, yes, you’re right about the new communications environment. These days, the “news” flashes around the world as soon as it happens.
I think its a disservice to children, and I really do wish that journalists were as honorable and respectable as they were 50 or 60 years ago. Now one has to fight through the filters to find the real, honest news. Thank heaven for Free Republic!