As you watch the nightly news, did you ever get the feeling that you have heard what you are hearing before and there is a familiar structure to all of it?
If you have not had the feeling described above, you should have had it because it happens every night.
The TV Networks use a check list over and over. At present it looks like this...
- Ebola...Ebola...Ebola.
- All things ISIS.
- Polls ad nauseam that instruct us as to what we should think, now that we know what others think.
- Latest Child Molestation Story.
- The Upcoming Election (there is always an Upcoming Election). No matter how far away the next one is, it is the Next One, so we speculate, palpate, obsess and worry about it.
- The latest Record Drug Bust which breaks the record for Record Drug Busts set two nights ago.
- Boots on the Ground. Boots that ought to be on the Ground. How many Boots would be on the Ground if they were actually on the Ground? When will the Boots be on the Ground? Why are the Boots not on the Ground? How many Boots need we have on the Ground before we have too many Boots on the Ground? What will be the average size of the Boots on the Ground once they actually do get on the Ground?
Back in the Archives next to Indiana Jones’ Lost Arc is the Old Check List that TV News Broadcasters used years ago before Good News became No News. It looked something like this...
- The latest inventions that will be of great benefit to all of us.
- Teasers about what we could expect on Ozzie & Harriet that night.
- Why Charitable Donations continue to be of such importance to the very fabric of this Great Country.
- Now that the price of Sliced Boiled Ham has gone over $.27 a pound, will Americans start eating Steak instead of Ham?
- Is that Buckle on the Back that teenagers are wearing on the back of their trousers a precursor to teens walking around with their pants falling down with most of their underwear showing?
Would I kid u?
Smartfella
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