Monday, October 11, 2010

the paper, the news

Why did i stop reading the paper and watching the news a long time ago?
This week, in reverse order...
p. 43 - The weekly installment "The Justice Story", an in-depth look at notable or bizarre violent crimes in NY history. Glamorization? Yup.
p. 41 - A Canadian woman becomes ordained, and may be excommunicated.
p. 29 - Eleven female college students hospitalized after a college party in Washington State. They were drugged into semi-consciousness, so they could be raped.
p. 28 - Four gay American teens killed themselves last month, unable to cope with the stress of coming out. The primary story involved a college freshman whose roommate posted hidden video online of the student having a sexual encounter.
p. 24 - The editor of Playboy Indonesia is jailed for two years, for publishing pictures of partially-exposed breasts.
p. 16 - A jailed Chinese dissident remains unaware he has won the Nobel Peace Prize.
p. 8 - A British aid worker is killed by her captors in Afghanistan.
p. 6 - An Emmy-winning Fox reporter is arrested for molesting a four year-old girl.
p. 4 - Seven Bronx youths arrested for violently torturing and sodomizing gay men.
p. 1 - A professional baseball team is celebrated for winning a playoff series. The athlete glamorized on the cover is a confessed cheater.
There are two choices in this society...desensitization, or some middle ground between desensitization and torment so profound that it would literally kill you if you tried to take it all in.

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