Clamshells
open, fingers fly, good ones here, bad ones there.
It wasn’t
all that long ago that I happened to be at the local grocery store, and just so
happened to witness the craziest thing. There was a customer who had opened 5
or 6 cartons of blueberries and was picking out all of the bad ones from the carton that he had decided to take and was exchanging them for better ones that were in
the other boxes.
This is only a rather disgusting story by itself, but if I add a few more details it becomes much more
interesting. It’s not the sort of thing I would do, but from a consumers point
of view it's somewhat understandable. However, this particular individual also happens to
operate a local media outlet. Which begs the question, what kind of news does
he/she choose to broadcast/publish? If he/she only chooses the juiciest berries, would
it not also be plausible that the intended audience never really sees the whole
picture?
Coincidentally
the final Presidential debate will air tonight. It will be an hour and half
spent talking about nothing. Yet, you can’t say that government doesn’t have a
role to play. It’s just that nobody really cares about infrastructure, until it’s
in a state of disrepair or about unemployment numbers until they’re out of
work.
Having said
all that… it’s thanksgiving weekend… so relax, eat well, and buy frozen blueberries next time you decide you’d like to
make a pie.
