Newstrich: Is avoiding Loop-News the same as sticking one's head in the sand?

"After the first report of catastrophe, it is no longer news."
-Henry David Thoreau

The stormcrows that be would like you to think yourself irresponsible for not sitting down, tuning in, and falling through to the universe of constant struggle, pain, and sorrow. The world is getting crazier because the water that we drink (Christian metaphor here) is not just tainted, it's doctored - spun, tweaked, and flavored poison.

I used to be a news junkie - NPR, CNN, FOX, Pacifica, and C-Span were my downfalls (Comedy Central was some twisted relief for the twisted reality.) But, I "stuck my head in the sand" - more like, I pulled my head out of the bucket.

There is more news out there that is not reported than the news that is - fear, fire, flood, pain, panic, and murder are the global news agenda; that's not life, it's death!

Blue Oyster Cult's ("40,000 men and women everyday") wrote 'Don't Fear the Reaper', runs through my head once in awhile when I find myself somewhere I cannot avoid the newsloops - loops, loops, loops... And I try to remember This One Thing - I'll write it big:

They don't call it programming for nothing!