WORLD NEWS ...
This past Sunday our Priest spoke of his recent trip to Germany and of course Rome Italy where he expressed his surprise to hear news from around the world that he said he never hears here in Canada.
He began by recalling his visit to the Nazis Death Camp at Dachau where some 41,500 poor souls perished. And it was not even their worst camp. His visit there coincided with the 75 anniversary of its liberation by American Troops in 1945 and had been in existence since early 1933. It brought him to tears in the knowledge that humanity could stoop so low.
He went on to say that we here safely tucked away in North America seldom are confronted with these images and indeed our news is too often divorced of any real substance even though many parts of the world today appears to be heading for self-destruction.
He is right of course. Your mum and I often complain about the lack of news in our 24 hour news(?) cycle. It is all about Trudeau and his socks, how terrible the Tories are for not being vaccinated and the constant rehashing of the day's Covid numbers. For sometime now I have not even bothered to tune in.
It was not always this way. Indeed, not that long ago Canada had decent news coverage but that was then and this is now - i.e. since the invention of the 24 hour cycle. There is only so many times you can stomach hearing 'we are all in this together' when covering the Covid outbreak.
The United States is the same... indeed, for all intents and purposes, it has always been in that their news is all domestic, all navel gazing - about the President and the odd Senator or two. We can attest to that since we wintered a number of years in Florida and the last several owned a Condominium there. Never ever did you hear about anything happening outside of their turf.
So what to do?
Fortunately, I stumbled upon the BBC World News on our Cable TV. It surprisingly deals with world news that is world shattering in importance...Revolutions here, Riots there, Famine and Pestilence wherever they occur. It is a treasure chest of up to the minute reporting. So why can't our public broadcaster or Fox News or CNN do likewise?
I will tell you what I think ...they are Lazy, Woke and Cannot be Bothered.
And we the public are the poorer for it.
As I See It...
'K.D. Bell'
