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To: Sully- who wrote (45522)	5/19/2004 3:08:45 PM
From: carranza2	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793685

Thank you, thank you, thank you, many, many thank yous, wstera, for bringing that brilliant article to this forum. Aldrich beat me to a subject I was going to post about: Front pages host circus sideshow issues above the fold. Consider the wall-to-wall coverage of the few gender-confused Americans now jumping on the marriage benefits gravy train in Massachusetts. This development is sure to enrage the Dark Age Assassins who consider America the Great Satan. Newspaper editors may be overjoyed about the opportunity to poke Conservatives in the eye by amplifying this minuscule matter, but the larger question of our moral decline is not lost on the terrorists. They hate us for it. They hate us not just for gay marriages and the spectacle we've made of them but also for Janet Jackson's breast baring at the Super Bowl, for Alexandra Kerry's dress, for Baywatch, etc., you name it. In an ideal world, I would say, fine, let them hate us for these things, they don't have to watch. However, it is not an ideal world. Every time the media focuses on what passes for popular culture in our country, the sharks smell blood. What to do? Good question. Damned if I know. Wouldn't it be salutary, however, if our popular culture were to become a bit more conservative, a bit less skin-baring, a bit less salacious? And a lot less materialistic? None of this stuff bothers me, I think it's stupid and, frankly, deadly boring, but it seems to bother those who hate us so why do we pour salt in wounds? Why does the media focus incessantly on these things which, as Aldrich correctly points out, distract us from the real issues? Because there's money and fame in the telling of these things.