Power and the news
With 110,000 people still waiting for electrical service after tornadoes and high winds early in the week, it's been great fun to creatively misread local news reports.For example, on the morning after the first wave of storms, the front page headline on the Fort Worth Star-Telegram screamed, "Thousands powerless."
They're kidding, right? "Thousands powerless"? Isn't that the story of humanity?
Could someone really write that headline without a sense of the irony involved?
I don't want to discount the suffering and potential danger of the lack of power. But what if we gave equal media space to true issues of powerlessness in our culture?
.: Posted by Duane Bidwell on Saturday, June 05, 2004
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