[conservatism_IS_compassion]

"What isn't in the news may be more important that what is in the news."

. . . and what "isn't in the news" is not limited to the things that happened yesterday which didn't get reported. There is no necessary reason why what happened yesterday is more important than what happened last week - or for that matter 2000 years ago.

The assumption that what happened 2000 years ago matters today is conservative. The assumption that what happened yesterday is important actually is radical.

[abb]

A piece on the PT Barnum factor in the EBIDS (Electronic Broadcast Information Distribution System, often mistakenly called broadcast journalism or network news).

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/tv/la-et-comment14-2008jul14,0,7475850.story
Katie Couric, news anchors and the cult of personality

[Aquinasfan]

. . . and what "isn't in the news" is not limited to the things that happened yesterday which didn't get reported. There is no necessary reason why what happened yesterday is more important than what happened last week - or for that matter 2000 years ago.

The assumption that what happened 2000 years ago matters today is conservative. The assumption that what happened yesterday is important actually is radical.

What ancient fact could be more important than today's sports and murders?

Reminds me of a great quote from Camus, of all people.

"A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers."

--Camus

Al hit that one on the nose.