Since all current news is either gut-wrenchingly depressing or mind-numbingly banal, surely the brutalized psyches of the citizenry deserve some respite from the syndicated Jeremiahs and televized Cassandras. And so perhaps a day might be set aside when all news outlets and agencies suspended operations for a period of twenty-four hours? Such a short moratorium on gloom could be called National No News Is Good News Day, and possibly held on Betty Boop's birthday.
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24 hours would be a good start.
I also hate how when I can't sleep and I turn on the news in the middle of the night (about the only time I do) all the channels are showing repeats of news from earlier in the day. I want to see what’s actually going on at 3AM, and only that.
Posted by: Carter | September 14, 2008 at 23:57
I have always wondered, when IS Betty Boops' birthday?
Posted by: Lloyd Mintern | September 16, 2008 at 14:29