News

Trapped in a car on the Hume Highway I had the displeasure of hearing the ABC news today.

Item one was a body found somewhere.

Item two was a suspected child molester found somewhere.

Item three was the unusually hot day.

I never discovered what item four was. It went off.

And this is the national public broadcaster, supposedly the intelligent one.

One shudders to think what the commercial channels peddle.

News to me is global, significant in it’s impact, and insightful.

I would hazard a guess that Australian news has degenerated into a form of titillation that has the effect of making people feel good-ish.

As in, ‘thank Christ it wasn’t me’.

But over the long term it has the opposite effect by making people feel as if they are surrounded by evil.

It’s best to tune out.