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**frkksptn** · 03-27-2012, 08:10 PM

Zippy

"The story, [which} should have been buried..?", as you pointed out in a lightly sarcastic manner, was really smothered by the passage of time and the endless creation of ever newer stories that TV news depends upon to remain contemporary. Like the leaves from a tree, NEW stories about atrocities, gang violence, shootings, DUI killings, c-store robberies and the like, fell daily from the news tree and simply buried the Zimmerman/ Martin leaf from sunlight. Each of those stories had their moment on the ground before new newsleaves fell, and each had some major importance to someone, somewhere. Perhaps some of them should be dragged out of the pile and looked at again. Maybe there are dozens of Zimmerman/Martin-like stories still buried, forever obscure after only a few moments exposure to the light.
But, if we are going to do this we should hurry. New leaves are falling, endlessly falling.
And Casey Anthony had nothing to do with "stand your ground". She employed the "lie like a rug" defense and won her case, despite overwhelming evidence suggesting that she murdered her kid.

When yesterday's news stories one day arise from the leaf pile and make their ghosts known again, like OJ or Osama--and now the Z/M story-- then THAT is the real news.

03-27-2012, 08:10 PM	#17
frkksptn Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 442 Senior Member	Zippy "The story, [which} should have been buried..?", as you pointed out in a lightly sarcastic manner, was really smothered by the passage of time and the endless creation of ever newer stories that TV news depends upon to remain contemporary. Like the leaves from a tree, NEW stories about atrocities, gang violence, shootings, DUI killings, c-store robberies and the like, fell daily from the news tree and simply buried the Zimmerman/ Martin leaf from sunlight. Each of those stories had their moment on the ground before new newsleaves fell, and each had some major importance to someone, somewhere. Perhaps some of them should be dragged out of the pile and looked at again. Maybe there are dozens of Zimmerman/Martin-like stories still buried, forever obscure after only a few moments exposure to the light. But, if we are going to do this we should hurry. New leaves are falling, endlessly falling. And Casey Anthony had nothing to do with "stand your ground". She employed the "lie like a rug" defense and won her case, despite overwhelming evidence suggesting that she murdered her kid. When yesterday's news stories one day arise from the leaf pile and make their ghosts known again, like OJ or Osama--and now the Z/M story-- then THAT is the real news.
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