I consider myself to be up on current events. It wasn’t always this way, and I’m not sure when that changed. I can remember being in my 20s and the last thing I would watch on TV or listen to on the radio was a news broadcast. Maybe it changed with the advent of the “24 Hour News Cycle”, I don’t know.
Yesterday’s big story was
the charge of cheating on the Olympic Badminton team. I didn’t even know this
was an Olympic sport and for such hell to be raised over them cheating just
left me gobsmacked. Apparently they were throwing games to get an easier draw
in the finals. I’ve been told that this happens in Soccer quite frequently. In
soccer, that makes sense to me, but in badminton? Really?
Then there was the story of
needles in the airline sandwiches. Needles! What kind of person does such a
thing I wondered? They declared it wasn’t a terrorist act. Really? You don’t
say? This is not something that would have entered my mind first off – “Oh,
needles in airplane sandwiches, must be terrorists!” Who ever it was that did
this was just some sick person. They deemed it to be a “prank”. A prank? Ok, I
think it’s a little more serious than a prank but not serious enough to suspect
terrorism…just saying.
Then there is the uplifting
story of the girl who lifted a car off of her father and gave him CPR and saved
his life. The incident happened in the family’s garage. While I’m glad her dad
is ok, and impressed that she saved his life, my first question was “How did
the car get on top of him in the first place, in the family garage of all
places?” But all is well that ends well. The girl still has her daddy though
they didn’t mention what kind of shape the car was in.
There seems to always be
something going on and none of it is usually very good. There are a lot of days
when I just simply don’t watch the news because it seems to all be bad. I have
a suggestion. I think once or twice a week, all the news stations, including
the 24 hour a day cable ones, should take a day or two and only report good
news! Imagine a broadcast filled with only good new stories: A country was
saved from famine and poverty, a war was over when negotiations were reached,
or better yet, a war was avoided because the parties came to an understanding
of each other, all abandoned dogs and
cats were taken in by loving families, a cat saved it’s owners life by dialing
911 and meowing into the phone, a dog pulled someone to safety after the person
fell and was hanging on a cliff’s edge, the garbage collectors in New York City
picked up all the trash bags in the street and for once the city is sparkling
clean, a religious conference was held with all the people in the world of
different faiths and everyone decided to just “get along”, all the spammers and
hackers in the world were captured and forced to do community services. These
are the stories that I would like to hear about.
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