Ode to the News

North-East-West-South……….

Is news actually from all around the world? There is in fact several countries they leave out of the worldly news. Its all a matter of who owns these newspapers, see. If the person owning these papers, or news channels, is anti-semitic then if some journalist was to write about a jewish someone they would surely be fired and sent off to search for another job. Now is that fair? Should the NEWS be censored in such a way that people who depend on it to know whats going on in our troubled world are kept from learning of what exactly is happening over in Israel? This of course is just an example. I’m sure that if you’re old enough to be reading a small-print rather boring grey shaded smelly pile of paper, you can handle the reality of some of the things they ‘censor’ out. A canadian paper was ridiculed for their use of the word ‘terrorist’. While editing their story for ’style’ as they put it, they decided to reconstruct this— ”…the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which has been involved in a four-year-old revolt against Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank.”— into this—”…the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a terrorist group that has been involved in a four-year-old campaign of violence against Israel.”    For such a small word it sure made an impact.  The necessity of this word was not great. To add it for affect is totally pointless. The fact that they butter up the stories for our ‘entertainment’ is sick. I’m not entertained by the fact that people are getting persecuted just because they happen to fit the description of a stereo-typical ‘terrorist’. I dont want to think I’m being updated on the world’s going-ons, when really I’m just being hand fed a load of BS from some rich guy who approves false imformation. This is probably all widely known, but its still rather upsetting.

Another thing that really gets me is this. A good majority of people don’t even read their papers. It takes 500,000 trees to make just one day of papers for those people in the US. They throw out 90% of them. The other day I walked past this house, on its lawn there were about 6 different newspapers strewn about carelessly, like they’d stocked up on them and let the wind cast them about. The funny thing was, I walked by about 3 or 4 days later and they were still there. I’m sure theres atleast one paper per street lying there unread and most likely wet. How the heck do they all end up there? It cant be too good for the world we apparently care so much about. I dont think you have to be some tree hugger or animal-rights activist to care about all of the garbage or trees getting cut down. The garbage is from all of the lazy people who can’t walk 2 steps to a can, the trees are getting cut down to make chairs for the lazy people to sit in. If this planet doesn’t exist, neither do we. We can’t sit here and count on another planet to suddenly become suitable to live on, because thats just ignorant. Its not even that we take it for granted, we’ve just allowed ourselves and our spawn to become so lazy that we are now products of moral ambiguity. Take the time to actually LEARN whats going on around you, being ignorant puts you behind which is the last place to be in a world obsessed with war and peace.

~ by craspoissusurrant on February 13, 2007.