THE PULSEWe don’t always agree on it’s qualities, but we are fortunate to live in an era when we have such free access to the many events taking place around the world. Now, as if that were too small an area, we get regular bulletins concerning things happening in space - the entire universe and beyond.
It has not been that way too long either. The newness of it all still startles some people while others can – and do ignore it completely.
Most of us would, I feel, be classified in a group called, perhaps, "keepers” - people who pay attention to news reports and make serious efforts to determine how they might relate to their lives.
The main items were facts about success in setting up a reformed government in Iraq and extended coverage of the day's election of a new mayor for the City of New Orleans. I find that was not the important news at all. The news, as being talked about this morning, was that Brittany Spears had been photographed actively "mis-treating" her small son. She was leaving a building holding her infant child in one arm; a drinking glass in the other when she caught a toe in an edge of her gown; tumbled and an alert bodyguard at her side caught the baby before he hit the ground! This new incident was cause enough to bring forth old films of Brittany driving her kid around pinned down on the seat of her convertible in am "illegal" backwards position.
This morning more people seem to remember the Brittany "paparazzi" item than the other two. I'm told the item also reported that Spears is pregnant again, I missed out on that bit of news. I find more and more viewers who edit the news they do watch in much the same manner retaining that which they think of as being good and avoiding all others.
Do you edit the news programs you watch in pretty much the same manner?
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphi.net 5-21-06 [c352wds]
