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Got online today after waking up and at first was upset by the lack of indignant coverage of this bunker-busting and other Trumpeteer stuff (there is, of course, ordinary news coverage), as there would have been, by the ton, had the media approach been the same as it was during my youth and early to mid adulthood, which of course has conditioned, though not totally controlled, my own responses.
The number of feel-good, fun, and fluff articles ticked me off a bit, actually. This was over all the online major wire services that I follow and the BBC (which I'm going to cut back on for a while as they're starting to give me a severe case of the Spirit of '76).
Only gradually has the realization sunk in this evening that, because editors are not fools, this approach, so widespread before a major US summer holiday and so typical, indicates that most of their readers -- who are in younger generations than mine -- probably ARE responding to all the Trumpeteer-related stuff, including counter reactions, and in an appropriate way, too: meeting this occasion of hatred with an absence of hate.
I'm not worried about the country any more. Folks who are 21 today will be my current age when its Tricentennial rolls around and I think y'all will have as many good things (and heartbreaks) to look back on as I and mine do.
Not really related, but still --
The number of feel-good, fun, and fluff articles ticked me off a bit, actually. This was over all the online major wire services that I follow and the BBC (which I'm going to cut back on for a while as they're starting to give me a severe case of the Spirit of '76).
Only gradually has the realization sunk in this evening that, because editors are not fools, this approach, so widespread before a major US summer holiday and so typical, indicates that most of their readers -- who are in younger generations than mine -- probably ARE responding to all the Trumpeteer-related stuff, including counter reactions, and in an appropriate way, too: meeting this occasion of hatred with an absence of hate.
I'm not worried about the country any more. Folks who are 21 today will be my current age when its Tricentennial rolls around and I think y'all will have as many good things (and heartbreaks) to look back on as I and mine do.
Not really related, but still --