I am amazed this is news.
“I am amazed this is news.”
One of the reasons I stopped reading and watching the news was, I painted my parent’s closets. My mother had lined the closets with newspapers which dated from the late ‘60’s. They read exactly the same as papers of the day in the ‘80’s. Rapes. Robberies. Murders. Political “scandals.” Stories of depravity, debauchery and incest. Nothing was different except the names and the dates. I set about wondering what I would like to be informed about. I wanted to know the in-depth background that set up situations; the reason, for example, that the unsolved murder rate in Chicago has skyrocketed. (Rahm shut all the detective departments in the lower income areas as a cost saving move. It wouldn’t have been politically popular to close them in the richer, safer neighborhoods.) Nowhere in the “media” did I find these in-depth analyses. Once I discovered FreeRepublic.com, I abandoned the “news” media.