percy

I gave up reading newspapers in print and online about the same time I gave up on politics. Years ago.

For the news, I was tired of reading prolonged Margaret Atwoodian type fluff that went on for 8 paragraphs before getting to the point. It's like I just want to know about the bank robbery down the street, not a fucking treatment by a 25 year old English Lit grad yearning for a Pulitzer.

But mainly was the ed-ops that turned me off. If it were just someones opinion of the facts, I could take it or leave it. But when the daily rags have to make up shit to write about, I had enough.

There was one national paper I wrote to telling them of a string of ed-ops that began as fictitious subjective meandering, then turned into fact a couple of weeks later by another writer in the same paper. To their credit, on the last page of Section A, in one sentence, they mentioned their faux pas. Guess it was a slow news day in Jerusalem, so they didn't need to print all their news as well.

But the damage was done though wasn't it?

I got irritated also with people who read the bullshit subjective, sometimes made up, often quoted from an unnamed source ed-op nonsense, and repeated it verbatim,..with conviction, as if the absolute 100% truth,,...don't even try and say otherwise people. We all know folk like that

So I stopped reading.

Then there is politics. God help us if the masses ever learn what goes on behind closed doors. There would either will be 100% voter participation at every election or a national revolt.

Maybe it's a good thing newspapers do what they do. We can't afford elections every month or a national general strike in revolt