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TV Casualty
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so...today i read the paper. i don't read the papers anymore, i don't know why. guess i just figured that i had enough of suicide bombs and fucking middle east and oil and corruption and global warming - did you know the emperor penguin is due to expire soon?
anyway, i read one or two stories. i keep it 'essential' ; no sports no entertainment bullshit, don't have the time don't give a shit. i read the paper twice; in the morning over breakfast and again at lunch time.
i got no friends so i read the paper.
little girl, 14, gets beat to death by her cab-driving dad.
misogynistic asshole convicted to 25 year 'life' term for murder. [i was under the impression that life meant...well life! not 25 years but im no judge].
israel attacks palestine again, peace talks halted again.
and the penguins.
after that last one i stopped, closed the newspaper and looked outside the window of the fast food joint i frequent. i had read the same stories on two different newspapers. "different publications", yet they were exactly the same, word by word. i was pissed but not surprised.
the reality of my life is so different than the stories on the paper.
always.
i wished i read the paper more often.
i don't like the sad stories usually featured as news but i can handle them.
but,
i would like to see more (and i fucking cringe every time i use this word) 'independent' news sources that speak to ME. that examine the issues we're all affected by from different, diverse points of view instead of a single, predetermined, narrow-minded, biased, agenda-loving-motherfucking point of view!
fuck.
i guess i won't be reading the paper tomorrow, why should i?
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