Columnist
COVID, political scandal, social unrest, insurrection…the national news media overwhelms us with a deluge of televised coverage of chosen events every minute of every day. Only a few subjects are covered at any time, although I often ask myself, surely there must be more than five things happening in the world at any given moment? This coverage continues to hammer us for weeks or months, long after most people can stomach it anymore. “I’m not watching the news,” people say. “I can’t stand it. If I have to hear about”–say, for example– “the radioactive wild boars of Fukushima one more time, I’ll take the bridge!”