EMAIL OF THE DAY

“Apropos of the media, I feel like John Adams, in the musical, “1776”:
Is anybody there?
Does anybody care?
Does anybody see what I see?
Because I was out of town yesterday, I stayed up late last night to listen to the news, and “Charlie Rose,” and “Nightline” (didn’t make it to 11:30, though). No one led with Tony Blair’s speech – no one even played any portion of it. If it weren’t for Mark Levin, on WABC radio in New York, I wouldn’t even have known what Blair had said. Levin read portions of the speech during his show, and I started to cry while I was listening to it, as I was driving home – weeping at the wheel, really! I was thinking – “This is a great man. We are lucky to be living at the same time he is.” I think of what he has gone through in his own country, and of his strong convictions and actions. (It’s not so surprising, actually – I have them, also. But given what’s going on in Europe these days….)
I feel like I’m living in an alternate universe. I turned “The Today Show” on this morning, and while there was a piece from Iraq by Brokaw (who’s coming around on this issue, I think), the next story was, of course, about Kobe Bryant. Is anybody there at all? Does anybody care? What is wrong with the world these days, or is it just the media? Couldn’t we start some sort of news channel that really DOES deal with what’s going on in the world – the important, earth-shaking events going on in the world currently?
Listen: when a moderate-to-liberal lesbian has come to appreciate (and listen to) Mark Levin and WABC talk radio, the world has turned seriously upside-down.”