News, news, news around the clock, around the world and then around and around again and again. Volumes of news and noise of news but is it really newsworthy? How much "news" is really fake or non news only different in the names that are used? That's tiresome time badly spent. Working in ones garden would be infinitely better.
President Obama is headed to Ground Zero in New York this Thursday. He will say something to the effect that OBL is dead, we all got revenge and the world is a safer place. That's not news in the sense that Obama is informing uniquely. He could have stayed in D.C. and kept his mouth shut and saved New Yorkers and tax payers traffic jams and money respectively. Now real news would have Obama issue a short statement through his press secretary that he did some math about the cost of killing bin Laden. And he has concluded that all things considered we didn't get our moneys worth. A cheaper way of fighting terrorists would be to have better foreign policies. I.E. remember that people in foreign countries have to live there long after presidential election cycles have been concluded. And if Pakistanis want the Taliban for friends, who can argue taste? Therefore as commander in chief of the armed forces he has issued an order for all U.S. troops around the world to stand down . The troops will come home and work on long neglected and badly needed infrastructure projects. Now that would be real news.
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