ESSAY
"...But Don't Take My World For It"
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Excerpt (first and last two sentences)
"Every major
news event brings about a massive, and often controversial, amount of media
coverage. Reporters and writers spill out articles upon articles about
international perspectives, comparisons, different viewpoints, public and
private response, and more recently-discovered, previously unimaginable issues
and questions, and within a week or so, the public starts to complain about the
extraneous details and the dramatic overplay....
...And yet, it still seems wrong when people are forced (or slyly
encouraged by the press) to lament for shuttle itself, to worry about the future
of the national space program, to recognize the apparent religious symbolism of
the falling pieces down to Palestine, TX, to quickly survive and surpass this
disaster only to move towards a seemingly inevitable war for no reason. It all
makes me wonder slightly if I should trust what I read."