Wednesday, February 22, 2006

Good news is no news

THERE ARE stories you won't see, hear or read today. The employment rate is 95.1%. About 29,564 domestic flights took off and landed without incident. Four million Iraqi children got safely to school. Meanwhile, their parents shopped, drove to work or otherwise went about their daily routines, mostly — overwhelmingly — without getting assassinated.

A pointless exercise in Pollyannaish thinking? Hardly. ...

That is, what you see each day on television, read about in the newspaper or hear during those 22-minute segments in which all-news radio stations promise to deliver "your world" is not, in fact, your world.... It's intellectually dishonest....

From the LATimes, of all places...read the whole thing...

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