When It Comes Down To The News

 I basically want eight things:

1.  I want the raw facts in a simple format....maybe one slide would be enough on one topic.

2.  If you mention a place....put a map up.  Most people have no real idea where Mongolia is, or how big the Sahara Desert is....or the general location of Mexico City.

3.  No story should be complicated enough to require more than two minutes of talking.

4.  What Senator so-and-so says is not really that important....so just quote the quote to two lines, and avoid a six-minute interview.

5.  If you have to do a Covid-story.....don't run video in the background of some women getting jabbed.  Some of us get nauseous when seeing injections.

6.  Avoid physical descriptions of women (saying she weighs around 190 pounds). It automatically makes me utter the phrase.....she seems 'chunky'.  If you gotta be direct on weight....you might as well say she was marginally attractive, or she carried a lot of extra weight on the butt.  None of this is helpful in telling the story though.  

7.  Avoid talking about social media frenzies.....like Facebook people got all junked-up over this verdict, or how Twitter people fell apart when such-and-such gal uttered this phrase.

8.  Frankly, try to model your news after Paul Harvey's 15 minute piece of the news.  

Conspiracy Story That Was True

 This is a little history story about a conspiracy story that was hyped-up to be negative and would later be found to absolutely true.

As 1920 arrived....the Prohibition Era was dumped upon Americans.  What started as a development to halt consumption of booze/alcohol....turned into a problem for people that favored alcohol.

People then figured out that you could brew your own booze....if you had the right ingredients.  By 1925, it was decided that something had to be done.  

Quietly, without saying a lot....the US government went to the companies that made legit commercial/industrial alcohol.  They instructed (guided) the companies.....to add some ingredients that would make highly dangerous for consumption.  They figured.....with a warning on bucket/barrel.....that was enough.

Between 1926 and 1933 (the end of Prohibition)....it's generally figured today that around 10,000 Americans died of chemical poisoning through the consumption of homemade alcohol.

Treated as a conspiracy?  Probably for more than thirty years....this was quietly discussed and treated as a joke.  By the 1960s, a lot of this information finally filtered out.  It was no longer a conspiracy.....it actually did occur.  The 10,000 number?  This is one part of the story that you can't be sure about.  It's estimated to be 10,000.....but it could just as well be 100,000.  

Wallace?

 Over Sunday's show.....Chris Wallace announced that his appearance on his Sunday chatter show (via Fox News) was going to be the last one.

The wording, if you gaze around various news outlets....was that Chris was leaving Fox. 

I pondered over this.  It's simply not a true statement.  He's not leaving Fox News.....he had zero options, they were not going to offer another contract.  

What Wallace says now...is that he's going over to CNN-Plus.

What's CNN-Plus?  Well....originally (1999)...it was the CNN attempt to create a Latino-CNN gimmick.  They gave it ten years, and deemed it a failure.

In the past year, they decided to bring back CNN-Plus but as a streaming news site (not Latino news).  

Is there a need for it?  My guess is that they are packaging this in a way....in three years....to sell it to someone (maybe Meta/Facebook....maybe Twitter).  

As for this being a big deal with Wallace leaving the Sunday talk show?  I'd argue that twenty-odd people are standing there and ready to take over the show.  It's not much of a big deal.