I am continually disappointed with the way news broadcasts prioritize stories. Stories that are important take a second to prolonged reporting of something sensationalized to the point of non-coverage. (This was especially prevalent in late 2001 to the point that TV news was no longer watchable.)
Today, a reporter cut off an environmental expert discussing the harms of drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge so that they could report on the recent trend of barbie butchery in childhood play. Now if they had added some sort of meaningful analysis about why I should care about tortured toys, be it Mattel's reaction or the impact on childhood development, that would be one thing. But nope. Just that Barbies are being mistreated.
They truncated the report about why we should care about the Porcupine Caribou, why the Representative from Alaska could get away with piggy-backing his unrelated ANWR-killing oil-drilling bill onto the defense spending bill, and why we should all cry a little on the inside for the triumph of six months worth of oil over thousands of species and pristine arctic beauty for what? To hear about the maiming, burning, torturing, and occasional microwaving of a 46-year old plastic symbol of lowered self-esteem?
Who knew, some part of me does like hugging trees.
1 exam and 6 days to go!
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The Senate shut the bill down! The caribou are safe and spanky for the time being.
So now I guess there are just the tortured barbies to care about?
are these special barbies? Do they have magic powers? Do they have feelings? Now that would be a cool story....Torturing Special Barbies....although depending on the way you look at it, torturing barbies could be the signs of a deep psychological disturbance...Once a psych major always a psych major.
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