Whimper week

[melchar]

It's my own fault for listening to too much news on radio and TV, so I only have myself to blame. However, as the media and politicos psyche themselves up for mega-breast-beating, wailings and whimperings in recognition of the 7th anniversary of the September 11 tragedy - is it only me who hears how much they are ENJOYING this? Just ew.

Comments

[howeird]

As a recovered journalist, I can take some of the ew out of it. Newspaper and TV "news" editors love nothing more than a thoroughly predictable, recurring event. They absolutely hate having to work, which is what news gathering is. They prefer oldsgathering. 9/11 is the news editor's dream because there is a ton of file footage, twelve tons of file photos, and sixteen tons of regurgitatble verbiage. And there is not an "expert" on the planet whose niche of expertise does not in some way hook into 9/11.

The enjoyment you see is not from any love of tragedy, it is from the love of knowing that for the next week or so, most of your work has been done for you, and you can sit back and roll the clip.