Tuesday, March 18, 2008

This Just In!

Ex NY Gov. Spitzer:
Trysts with high priced hookers exposed,
his subsequent resignation from office...
It's a newsworthy story.
And I understand why.

New NY Gov. & Mrs. Paterson:
Their mutual affairs (and now repaired marriage) exposed...
It's a newsworthy story??
I can't imagine why it would be.

There's "news" and there's "trash talk" that pretends to be news. It seems we have lost track of which is which. Above is just one example. What do you think makes it news? What makes it trash talk? What standards should we set and demand to make news newsworthy? Where have our standards gone??

xox from an irritated squacker, TSannie

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Ironically, I have discussed this myself today! ...

It's their children I truly care the most about.

And mine.

Today is the 5th anniversary of our invasion of Iraq. We pay $4 for a gallon of gas, it costs me three times as much today as it did 5 years ago to put food on the table. Shall we not even begin to discuss how much we spend to heat our homes? Oh, and Dick Cheney goes on national television and says everything is hunky-dory, and that the public opinion means nothing to him. Pretty.

What are we doing?

sigh, MPM

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love your squack site. I wish we didn't live 3000 miles apart!

The Midlife Gals said...

The Midlife Gals love this whole squackin' thing! don't we boomers just have the most wonderful, funny, original ideas? Even if they are none of those things...they are OURS and we have computers now!!

Hehehehe

KK and SalGal

thanks for coming by our neighborhood, TSannie.