On the Contrary

I been thinking which is always a dangerous thing.  Every time some nut job goes off on a shooting spree, the national media goes berserk covering mindless speculation and rumor the rest of the day, and news that is important to our future gets totally pushed off the airwaves.  Since the Republicans certainly don’t want us discussing our real problems because they don’t have any solutions, could this not be some conservative plot to distract us from the real issues of the day?  They certainly have enough nut jobs and guns across the country to pull this off.  I can hear it now, “Today in podunk  city a crazed shooter shouting ‘Bring back my country,” shot and wounded x bystanders at Chunky Cheese.  In a related story Michelle Bachmann said this was a real measure of the unrest in this country over the loss of the election to the Democrats.”

I don’t mean to demean those who have been killed or injured in these senseless attacks, but these kinds of news stories are kind of like rubber necking at a car wreck scene.  There is very little to be learned except to see carnage, and when this distracts us from our primary task, in this case driving the car, it leads to us to rear end the car in front of us because we are not paying attention to where we are going.  You get the analogy.  I am sure the press doesn’t.  If it bleeds, it leads.  If it is outrageous, repeat it over and over.