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11/12/09

“How I deal with the Daily Headlines”

By Adam Gentry

 

Mostly, I don’t. I look at them, but I don’t read them. I have a sincere skepticism about things that must be filled each and every day. How they must scramble to meet their quota, fattening and disguising small stories, or disguising old news as new. If something is truly worth knowing, it will last. But those tiny lines are buried, less than a week old. Sometimes I will read, if the issue is once a month, if real time has been given to select something worth while. But most of the time it’s another corrupt leader, another angry citizen, another greedy businessman. I do enjoy the occasional story of charity, some generous soul who volunteers, but it’s sad that has become one genre, to be fulfilled, while corruption, greed, anger, and violence, all have their own sections.