Pressing On

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DOUGHBOYS
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Pressing On

Post by DOUGHBOYS » Fri Mar 27, 2020 3:01 pm

Scoreboards in ANY sport have been of little use lately.
Sports have gone away.
But wait, the press has brought back the scoreboard.
I strongly dislike the American press.
Back int he day, the press did what they were supposed to do. Report news.
Now, the press has to have a 'lean'.
They lean towards sensationalism.
They lean towards one party.
They lean towards the other party.
They lean towards doom and gloom.
They lean towards a happy face.
But mostly, they lean towards a sad face.
They lean.

Nowadays, doom and gloom is everywhere the press is.
I feel for a child looking at news now.
They have to be looking at news and going to bed wondering if they'll even wake up.
Our news has gone from 25 minutes about Thad and five minutes on weather.
And that is during an election year.
That's right.
After Thad is done, we get to hear political ads until November.
2020, You really suck!

I mentioned a scoreboard.
The press has changed it.
Runs indicate the amount of Thad cases.
Hits indicate the death toll.
Errors are the new cases.
And they remind us of these scores every chance they get. Every chance.
They never tell us how many folks have contracted Thad and recovered.
Never.
They tell us 'TOM HANKS HAS THE VIRUS!'
Or 'PRINCE CHARLES HAS THE VIRUS!'
In bold letters or headlines.
Not a word that they are now recovered or recovering well. And especially not a word about how us 'little people' are recovering.
To them, that's not news.

If the stock market drops 2,000 points, that is their lead.
If gaining it all back the next day, hardly a mention.
I'm sick of the gloom and doom.
I don't blame China or our leaders for this stupid thing. This thing is a thing that America will handle. Because we handle everything.
But I am blaming the press for taking something and scaring kids and giving us information that serves little purpose other than to produce panic.
Thanks to them, toilet paper is the new currency and Purel is liquid gold.
And Screw that scoreboard! It's incomplete. But they know that.
In America, freedom of the press is assured.
In my house, freedom to turn OFF the press is just as assured.

It's not often I post about the real world and I'm sorry for that.
These people get my blood boiling and I needed a vent.
It probably doesn't help that this would have been day 2 of baseball season. :x :x
Thanks for putting up with me in making a non-baseball post.
On my tombstone-
Wait! I never had the perfect draft!

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