Our local newspaper is probably one of the worst pieces of journalistic trash I have ever read.  It goes to press about noon every day so anything that happens in the afternoon is lost until the next day.  I will be a day late for the second coming if I am somewhere there is no TV.

The entire media process is a cesspool of the actions of a society that is sliding to hell on a greased luge track.  There is rarely a celebration of some daring deed by a real hero.  We are bombarded by exploits of a few people who many of us never knew and could care less.  HARVEY WEINSTIEN.   The exploits of this joker has been on top of the news for the last 36 hours.  It has drug gals out of the closet like Terminex scatters bugs.  He is being charged with “casting couch” half the women in Hollywood.  I have learned not to let these kind of things get me too inflamed because they seldom turn out as they are reported.  Dont get me wrong, I sincerely think either party has the right to say NO.  No one should have to perform acts such as these in order to get a job, but, you don’t wait 10 years for someone else to claim harm and then say, “oh, he did that to me also”.  This is a little like the hooker hollering rape when the check bounces.

I know everyday exploits of the everyday man would never sell a paper but damn I wish there was some newspaper that just showed pictures of puppies, small bear cubs and chipmunks doing the things they do.  I miss the days of ole Walter Cronkite just telling us what happened.  I don’t remember him ever telling us what he felt.  Maybe he figured that wasnt his job.  Maybe he and others of that era just figured we were smart enough to form our own opinion if we were just given the facts.  As SGT Friday used to say, ” the facts ma’am, just the facts”, or something like that.

GC