Pumpkinslinger wrote: |
All the news is pretty much the same, might as well enjoy the view! |
Change the names, and the faces, but most stories end up starting to sound similar.
"Gang violence kills teen, XX, at (Insert local ghetto)." somewhere under that headline "Mother and naighbours claim boy was a good kid", and talk about how he "always" went to church and never did the wrong thing and always helped people.
"Man, wanted in the connection of a disappearance"
"(insert ACLU/Amnesty International etc), warns government is blocking (insert some "right"), with new (insert law/policy/action)"
"(Insert Animal rights group) claims that (insert hunting/tourism/industry/global warming) is causing the extinction of (insert some unique sound local wildlife) in the region"
"New (insert type) movie sweeping the box office" (these are every damn week or so)
"(insert useless celebrity) is flying to (insert mid-Africa or South Asia) to "help" the locals"
"President/Prime Minister (insert current name) is going to (insert some destination a few thousand miles away) to talk about a new (insert trade agreement/economic partnership/goodwill mission etc) between both countries.
Or Economist "special reports" that just are telling us what we can see by looking at the stock Indexes anyways.
I could go on but that is enough for now.
Dimitri