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To: carranza2 who wrote (182058)	10/9/2006 2:05:34 PM
From: Rambi	Respond to of 794299

I don't know if it's naiveté to hope for less politicization in these issues or not. Since we are all aware of how unlikely this is; maybe we are just cock-eyed optimists who believe that somehow we will manage to find adults willing to rise above blind ambition and power. The fact taht Foley takes precedence over NK on the news says a couple of things. One, people really aren't interested in real news, so much as something they can immediately get excited about, judge, condemn, approve, opine. Most people aren't terribly knowledgeable about issues and don't really care to learn. Second, if we think we are watching "news" on Fox and CNN, we are kidding ourselves. We get a few minutes of news and then a whole lot of exactly what I described above. The standard of analysis isn't being set very high. The news itself would only take a few minutes. The extreme politicization is aided and abetted by the networks as they search for what gets their audience worked up. My son has a blog on his company's site, and last week he wrote about the use of knowledge as power and how exciting it is that knowledge is now accessible to us all and not just the elite few. Sadly, we seem not to be availing ourselves of this amazing gift, but are content to still be led by the elite few who throw a few cute soundbites our way. we are Lazy lazy, and overall, as you said, it is sad.