Community Corner
MASS MEDIA REPORTS: Shutdown - Parks, Commissaries Close... but, 'there's no more milk for the baby'
It's almost like they're purposely hiding a campaign of terror being waged - by our own government - on its own people.
While Congress is currently and actively destroying the county - the media is reporting that parks and commissaries are closed?
I am as disgusted with the government shutdown as any sane citizen should be - but based on today's news headlines and lead stories - I'm far more disgusted with the media's coverage of the shutdown!
Are they ALL really so callous - or so controlled - that they would avert the public's attention to the most mundane casualties of the government's dysfunction?
"Squirrel"
From Patch's article; "Commissaries Close Wednesday As Government Shutdown Hits Naval Base Coronado" to KBPS's "Government Shutdown Impacts Grand Canyon River Outfitters" and "San Diego Parks Feel Impact Of Federal Shutdown", and on and on and on... It's almost like they're purposely hiding a campaign of terror being waged - by our own government - on its own people.
While I've grown accustomed to the UT and local talking-head television stations reading directly from their respective political party newswires, I always thought NPR and Patch reported more from a perspective of the people - but not this time.
Yesterday - the first day of the first governmental shutdown in 17 years - I wrote a auto insurance policy for a new client who was switching from a high-limits full-coverage AAA policy to a minimum state liability policy - because she was laid-off - not furloughed - from her job with a private company that has some government contracts.
This morning, a client paying her monthly bill told me that her daughter's WIC was shutdown. On her way out, she told us she was headed to store for her daughter, because - "there's no more milk for the baby"!
But all the local headlines are about Commissaries, Parks, and other non-concerns that have no real consequence to most of us. Really? What the hell is that all about?
In general, people don't seem to care too much about the dysfunctional government or the federal shutdown, could the reason be they just don't know WTF is going on because the media is reporting - squirrel?
