Maryland abolishes death penalty.

[Hammerskjold]

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― George Orwell, 1984

Yep. Increasingly however, I think it's no longer Orwell vs Huxley. It looks more and more like it's Orwell, -and- Huxley.

http://www.thecitrusreport.com/2011/head...nd-orwell/


Closer to my neck of the woods, but shows that it's not just about the USofA.


http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/0...hs_in.html

Now to be clear, I don't care what people watch\do\play in their own free time. It's -their- time, their business.

I do however, start to wonder when things like news programs starts morphing into Entertainment Tonight. I'm not expecting a hard hitting investigative journo piece on every single channel.

But it becomes un-nerving when I see increase coverage ratio of Kardashian in the news. I used to say that to get the most meaning out of the jokes on The Daily Show\Colbert Report, you had to watch the news as well.

Nowadays, I have a hard time seriously saying the last part. It's closer to, watch TDS\Colbert for the satire, watch the news for the joke. Except that I think the joke is ultimately on all of us.

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