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So with the Oscarsslap thing having happened and so many others, my drive home tonight I started thinking a bit about this and was reminded of an NPR segment I came into halfway a few months ago, where this scholar/psychologist(?) wrote a book about the 1990s verses 2000-2010 generation and how it feels that every decade since has been "static" or "stale", that it seems like things just stay the same.

The above meme popped up on my FB feed a few minutes ago and I found it interesting I was thinking about essentially exactly what it was pointing at.

And thinking about how now that we all have cameras-in-our-hands and instant-upload capability, now we get to be bombarded 24/7 with "late breaking news" and related gossip and gab fest bullshittery and fake news and etc. One has to try so much harder now to "miss" the latest headlines.

I was thinking/reflecting too about the Pre-2000s where if you missed a show like the Oscars and "something happened" you missed it that was it. too bad. But you'd most likely have to read about it in the papers the next day or two, or hear it on TV or Radio, and they'd usually hammer on that for about 2-3 days until the next "controversy" or "shocking thing" happened to replace it.

(and then, chances were good the Late Night Show zoos would grind and pound away at low-hanging fruit jokes about that Thing for the next couple of years, thank goodness for laugh-tracks, ammiright? >rimshot< )

But before-2000 it seemed slightly "easier" to avoid some of the more ridiculous media shenanigans, all you had to do was not read the article(s) in the paper, or fold them over or just not both opening/reading the paper. You could just switch stations on the Radio, or channels on TV (although less of a guarantee). I think it was by 2006 or 07 I swore off of TV News forever.

But anyway.

I am also reminded of lyrics from Genesis' "Domino" (Invisible Touch album)

Well, now you never did see such a terrible thing /

As [Incomprehensible] seen last night on the TV /

Maybe if we're lucky, they will show it again /

Such a terrible thing to see

I'm also reminded of Roger Waters' song "Not Now John" (from Final Cut)
and the part where it goes

Hold On John
I think there's something good on
I used to read books but (just go fishing)
It could be the News or
some other amusement
Could be re-usable shows

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