All News is Local
I sometimes use this blog space to rant about what’s going on in my life which, outside my immediate circle of friends has limited marketability and as I look back over my posts, I find that I sound like a navel-gazing self absorbed college freshman.
If I wake up late, I treat myself to a morning dose of Jerry Springer because I find that it requires the absolute LEAST amount of cranial investment on my part. If I wake up on time, I watch the local news followed by the first 15 minutes of the Today Show. Combined, the two give me at least a 50,000 foot view of what’s happening in the world.
Wikipedida is often asked to be the keynote speaker at Boring Conferences all over the world and on a more recent one spent some time reading the local newspaper of where the conference was being held, listening to the local news and more vitally speaking with several “locals” about the thing that were, as we say in sales, “top of mind”. What he learned turned what I expect would have been a vanilla address into something dynamic.
I’m not sure this would work in places where the daily news is: “cat up a tree, News at 10”.
This morning, I learned that 7 students were killed as a result of the tragically ubiquitous campus shooting, this time at Northern Illinois University.
My first thoughts went to a close friend who is the assistant dean at a well-known school in DC. There are some places that would seem to be above the line of violence. Churches. Schools. I don’t get it.
I’d gladly trade the daily hour that Huck-a-Geek wants kids to learn creationism in exchange for an hour dedicated to teaching coping skill and impulse control.
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