Call it denial or what else you may, but in the last couple of days the thoughts rolling about in my thinking cap have been pushing back at all of the negative news emanating from the wires of the news services, cable TV, and the print media.
It isn’t that the reporting of bad news does not reflect the reality of central events happening here and internationally, but rather that many in the media seem to display an almost morbid obsession to concentrate exclusively upon the unconstructive, man-made problems of our globe.
Consider, for example, the overwhelmingly tragic disaster of the oil spill out in the Gulf of Mexico. Instead of our national government concentrating on solutions, it has been cover-your-butt-from-the- beginning. Correspondingly, that’s what the media have latched onto, and that’s what they focus their reporting upon – thereby feeding further into a national sense of divisiveness.
Meanwhile, the Cajuns of Louisiana – my blood brothers and sisters – are left to suffer through another life-altering disaster in their beautiful part of America.
We can do better than that. And so can our elected leaders and those who claim to be professional journalists and pundits.
Thanks for reading, and stay engaged.
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