Comments on: The joy of fear http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/03/the-joy-of-fear/ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:45:44 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: LWIII http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/03/the-joy-of-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-4010 LWIII Wed, 05 Aug 2009 02:35:36 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=931#comment-4010 I bet locals laugh a lot at guys like that. TV news is mostly the theatre of the wallet. Chaos and misery...and threat...sells, and the only raison d'etre of TV news is to push product. Except maybe for PBS-type stuff, and it still is trying to gain viewers. Thanks for sharing, Darrelyn. Reading rocks! I bet locals laugh a lot at guys like that. TV news is mostly the theatre of the wallet. Chaos and misery…and threat…sells, and the only raison d’etre of TV news is to push product. Except maybe for PBS-type stuff, and it still is trying to gain viewers.

Thanks for sharing, Darrelyn. Reading rocks!

]]> By: Darrelyn Saloom http://tomhowe.org/blog/2009/08/03/the-joy-of-fear/comment-page-1/#comment-4008 Darrelyn Saloom Wed, 05 Aug 2009 00:02:05 +0000 http://tomhowe.org/blog/?p=931#comment-4008 Living near the Gulf Coast, I remember seeing Dan Rather in my hometown doing a live broadcast of an uneventful hurricane (long before Katrina) outside he staggered in the wind and rain. We (locals) laughed and laughed because a) he was outside, which was stupid, and b) it was not even close to being as bad a storm as he dramatically reported. So, I agree. Be joyous and read. Might as well, because most of what you see on television news is fiction. Living near the Gulf Coast, I remember seeing Dan Rather in my hometown doing a live broadcast of an uneventful hurricane (long before Katrina) outside he staggered in the wind and rain. We (locals) laughed and laughed because a) he was outside, which was stupid, and b) it was not even close to being as bad a storm as he dramatically reported.

So, I agree. Be joyous and read. Might as well, because most of what you see on television news is fiction.

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