Sometime I look at writing like it is a stream running through the wooded hill country of tall Texas. As the story winds across, the ground, around the trees, and down the rocky water falls, it resembles life.
The last few days, my stream has been dry, with nothing flowing in the creek bed. The last few days we have got to listen the news media focus on a dozen stories of voters having issues at polling places, all the while they do not report on the millions of people that voted without incident. There was a song released in the 80’s by Phil Collins about the news people chasing news that was morbid or death with deaths, or murders.
John F. Kennedy was interested in Journalism, however, he decided that it was not Journalist who changed things, it was politicians. I think that while that might be true, the news media of today has a lot more inherent power, and are jaded more to one specific political party. How informed can the public be on an issue if all they here is the 30 or 60 second sound bites. Yet, that is the world, and society that we live in.
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