I do not understand.

[kyburg]

Is the point of reaching this age watching terrible events repeat themselves like this?

I can remember the deaths of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy. Vividly.

When JFK was killed, the whole world shut down and the television never stopped reporting the news on all three channels.

The most telling thing about this shooting in Arizona is that I haven't turned on the television. Not once. Don't need to. Don't want to.

Don't think I'm going to get the truth or anything newsworthy if I do.

And that, my friends? Is the saddest stroke of all.

Comments

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Fear not. There's always the *British* media.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/09/usa-arizona

[kshandra]

Psst - Credit for that icon should go to universeunfolds.

[admnaismith.livejournal.com]

Thanks. Sometimes I forget where I find these.

[ecstaticlght.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I was thinking that same thing yesterday, as I was listening to my son and his wife worry their way through all of the media updates and conspiracy theories. I've seen this too many times and really don't think we'll get any valid details from any source now, if ever.

[cakmpls.livejournal.com]

I think that most people don't have the same reaction to such an event involving a politician from a venue other than their own. When Paul Wellstone's plane went down, I was glued to the TV, but I doubt that many people in other states were.