Comments by "" (@stevenwiederholt7000) on "Valuetainment"
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FrankDaTank1218
Starting about a year ago, I've at least once a week, I pay no attention to The News...or what passes for the news.
From a talk Michael Crichton gave in 2005 (An Evening with Michael Crichton...you can google it)
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"But Chernobyl started me on a new path. When I began to research these old fears to find out what had been said in the past, I discovered several important things. The first is that there’s nothing more sobering than a 30-year-old newspaper. You can’t figure out what the headlines mean, you don’t know who the people are. Theodore Green, John Sparkman, George Reedy, Jack Watson. Who were they? You thumb through page after page of vanished concerns, issues that apparently were important at the time and now don’t matter at all. It’s amazing how many pressing concerns are literally of the moment. They won’t matter in six months, and certainly not in six years, and if they won’t matter then, are they really worth our attention now?
But as David Brinkley once said, the one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news, we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were."
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about a year ago I started taking this seriously.
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