When the News Is Nonsense
Here is a brilliant, if ruthless, article about how the news has gone largely to nonsense.
Didn't the whole "balloon - spaceship --Wife Swap" faflooey set off any warning bells? As soon as you heard any of these concepts, didn't you think, "Hmm, this sounds screwy"?
Actually, no. It sounded like the rest of the inane gibberish on the news. I take very little of that news seriously these days, unless it comes from a reliable source somewhere sensible like Great Britain or Canada. But there is so much idiocy in actual practice, most of it by adults who had ought to know better, that it's getting very hard to identify what is merely a joke or a hoax.
*sigh* I would very much like to have the real news back. I miss when smart people talked about one topic, with actual facts in it, for more than 10 seconds at a time. Today's alleged "journalists" mostly make me want to point their nose in a corner and say "Let's play Who Can Be Quiet the Longest."
Didn't the whole "balloon - spaceship --Wife Swap" faflooey set off any warning bells? As soon as you heard any of these concepts, didn't you think, "Hmm, this sounds screwy"?
Actually, no. It sounded like the rest of the inane gibberish on the news. I take very little of that news seriously these days, unless it comes from a reliable source somewhere sensible like Great Britain or Canada. But there is so much idiocy in actual practice, most of it by adults who had ought to know better, that it's getting very hard to identify what is merely a joke or a hoax.
*sigh* I would very much like to have the real news back. I miss when smart people talked about one topic, with actual facts in it, for more than 10 seconds at a time. Today's alleged "journalists" mostly make me want to point their nose in a corner and say "Let's play Who Can Be Quiet the Longest."