One of the members on the DJ board posted this a while back, I thought it was interesting/funny and wanted to share it with you all.
It is the month of August, on the shores of the Black Sea. It is raining,
and the little town looks totally deserted. It is tough times, everybody is
in debt, and everybody lives on credit.
Suddenly, a rich tourist comes to town.
He enters the only hotel, lays a 100 Euro note on the reception counter,
and goes to inspect the rooms upstairs in order to pick one.
The hotel proprietor takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his debt to
the butcher.
The Butcher takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the pig
grower.
The pig grower takes the 100 Euro note, and runs to pay his debt to the
supplier of his feed and fuel.
The supplier of feed and fuel takes the 100 Euro note and runs to pay his
debt to the town’s prostitute that in these hard times, gave her “services”
on credit.
The hooker runs to the hotel, and pays off her debt with the 100 Euro note
to the hotel proprietor to pay for the rooms that she rented when she
brought her clients there.
The hotel proprietor then lays the 100 Euro note back on the counter so
that the rich tourist will not suspect anything.
At that moment, the rich tourist comes down after inspecting the rooms,
and takes his 100 Euro note, after saying that he did not like any of the
rooms, and leaves town.
No one earned anything. However, the whole town is now without debt, and
looks to the future with a lot of optimism..
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how the United States Government is doing
business today.
For the longest time I’ve ignored television news and turned to Google News for almost all of my news. Quite frankly, I’m tired of the fluff; a 5 minute segment on who the next American Idol is going to be is not and never will be news. Other than that my second complaint about media is everything is sensationalized and a majority of the focus is on negative pieces. The few positive stories that air are often squeezed in as the last segment.
My local newspaper’s website has a comments section on every article I frequently read through the comments. Today being Sunday there were a lot of fluff pieces such as local success stories and the like. Along with a cop stabbing and negative piece about a local hospital there were two positive stories one a about a local girl who grew up in a bad neighborhood and made something of herself, another congratulating a local police force for cleaning up gang a gang infested apartment complex.
Here’s the number of comments for each story:
Cop stabbing: 14 comments
Hospital: 9 Comments
Gang Cleanup: 2
Successful Girl: 0
What does that tell you? Is all the negativity being reported truly the media machine’s fault for publishing mostly the worst in people or are negative stories what people demand by reaction and viewer ship?
I tell you what I think; Even though a lot of people complain about the news people still like to know there are people more screwed up then themselves out there. This way people can sit on their little perch, gloat about how great they are, ruminate on how they would never do such a thing, where things went wrong, and judge others. You know the old saying “Sex Sells”? Today it’s “Sex, Violence, and Negativity sell.”