After a year with non-stop cable network news I find myself in the dark. Of course not totally, there's always the Internet, newspapers and rabbit-ear evening news. So really it's not the darkness, but the loneliness. With two years of election build-up, war and the such, I became close with these news people, a one-sided relationship yes, still I felt a bond. We had disagreements (see Morning Joe) and problems (the sudden disappearance of the World News Hour on CNN.) Though at the end of the day we came through everything together. Now that all of you are rarely in my lives these days I find myself...well,I'll get back to that.
As you may know by now the economic conference conjured up little results over the past weekend. It was more a 'We are the World' vibe that produced few, if none, concrete measures. At least a we are the richest in the world and it's an open bar! (see Brazil/US/China cheers) In fact, the conference has done so much to instill confidence in the world markets that earlier today Japan announced it's in a full scale recession, quickly followed by a similar one from the almighty Euro-zone. It seems to be a full scale Japanese style Godzilla attack across descending time zones. I figure it should hit California sometime after lunch. That is if we're wussy enough to make such a claim!
Should I get to my point though, I mean what I started out with? I have come to rely on these news persons to relate exactly what I related in the paragraph above. I received the news today from a blank, uncaring computer screen, not the friendly faces that I've spent many afternoons with. Now there is no where to turn. The local pub doesn't show MSNBC, CNN...hell give me a little FOX. The surfers who live next door probably don't want to watch it on their cable. If the world's in the WC, I don't want the news from a dot com.
Now that I have no cable I find myself spending my off hours constantly on line. On facebook the other day I typed in Chris Matthews and he's got a fan club, but no personal page. Then I typed in Julia Boorstin, perhaps a lesser known figure on CNBC, but there was no one better to deliver grim economic news. I sent her a friend request to her personal page. From it I could only gather that she had graduated from Princeton in 2000. She had a sweet unassuming picture, in which she was wearing a summer hat. I waited a few days and then grew impatient. I knew that she wasn't going to see my request through, but I decided that we should probably just keep the relationship professional. So I joined her fan club instead.
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