TBTL WITH LUKE BURBANK

This Week In Rage

Oct 17, 2014, 11:02 AM | Updated: 2:28 pm

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People seem angrier these days. But I don’t think they are. Just like we are more worried our kids will be abducted than a generation ago despite evidence that these crimes are no more common, the proliferation of news outlets and the internet have also made us hyper aware of angry people. Technology has brought the world to our doorstep and some of us aren’t handling the responsibility well.

Local news, in all forms, bears the standard for attempting to make every story about us. We can’t be trusted anymore to find news inherently interesting. This approach keeps us through the commercial break and makes us click through the pages but it weakens us intellectually. There is more good journalism today than ever in history, but the bad stuff proliferates faster and it tastes better to dummies. Make room in that canoe, Luke, because I’m coming with you.

Today’s show was supposed to be “listener mail” but one thing after another pushed the train off the tracks. Andrew is nauseated from his Eat Street lunch shoveling, and Luke is weary from constant online bickering, especially the bickering about what we should be bickering about. And I will write what Luke stopped short of saying. Everyone has a voice now, and maybe they shouldn’t. Unfortunately the “shut up” horse is already out of the online barn.

Let me lighten up this up with a joke I recently made up:

What did the zero say to the eight? Maybe you should just go lie down for infinity.
(I’ll see myself out)

Follow me @drewmcfrizz on Twitter. Friend me on Facebook where I’m still trying to figure out a way to make the Ebola story about me. My “government” is Mike Frizzell. Go to TakedownPodcast.com to hear me spout vague, uninformed opinions.

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