Media

Just say good-bye. I know that it’s a political season. It’s always a political season, for the last 10 years. John Kerry seems to represent those pointy headed, left of the lefts that the old media guys love to hold up as the reason everyone should vote for democrats. That support for Kerry & friends is probably a strong reason that old network news and newspapers are losing their audience.

It seems that every birthday she or I have is a time to remember the good parts of our long time on this earth. Yesterday my mother and sister came over to help celebrate. Children and education, both past and present, were one of the discussions. Being an old guy, in most of my classes, I was one more than 40 kids and we all learned to read and write. Teachers seemed to view their careers as a calling, though there were good and bad teachers. Their income was similar to the rest of the community. Today, the class sizes are a fraction of what they were and teachers are paid much more than most Americans. Sadly, fewer children learn to read and write proficiently and many more never graduate.

Something is screwy. We have been listening to news readers celebrate the fact that New Orleans has successfully completed their first Mardi Gras since Katrina. Well, duh. It’s also been the first one since the last one…which was just a year ago. They are obviously making progress in some areas.

Does anyone in the media know anything about Africa? I don't think so. While watching the news, a while back, the headlines were being read. There was a hotel fire in Paris. At the time, the report was that 20 people were injured or killed, 6 of them children, and they were from several countries including the U.S., France, Portugal and Africa.