After watching ~1/2 hour of what now passes for "news" in the States I'm ready to try any alternative.
If R2D2 wants to try his hand at writing script for C3PO to deliver, it would at least be different than the kindergarten groupies who now preach to their numbed and dumbed down congregants.
There was a study decades back that showed that watching FAUX NEWS actually lowered your understanding of world events, and that the more you watched, the less you knew. The other channels must have read the report, noted FAUX viewership, and decided that this was the way forward. The results are astonishing, an insult to anyone not inured to the fantasy.
Many years ago I was recovering from total paralysis, but appreciated getting out when I could. I hobbled, I slobbered, I couldn't speak well. I ventured into a convenience store to purchase something and had an unfamiliar clerk help me count my change.
"You gave me two one dollar bills. Your drink was One dollar and fifty nine cents. I'm giving you one quarter, that's twenty five cents, one dime which is another ten cents, one nickel, or five cents and one more penny."
"If we take the one dollar and fifty nine cent drink and add one penny we'll have one dollar and 60 cents, then if we add a nickle we get one dollar and sixty five cents. Another ten cents with this dime, then twenty five cents more and we're right back to the two dollars you gave me. Understand"
All this with an elaborate mime of exchanging moneys.
I grunted and slunk out of the door.
The emotions I felt were not too far removed from those experienced while flipping slowly through the American "News" Channels. Do they really believe their viewership is that stupid?
Could they actually be correct?
Terry