I have been more or less unplugged from the media since Saturday. On Saturday, all I saw was college football. It’s really been quite nice. I haven’t even had the opportunity to keep up on my email. Now that I’m slowly plugging back in, I’m finding myself more irritated than usual. I guess this is the media equivalent of not knowing how smelly a room is until you go outside and get some fresh air.

If I were willing to pay for all the TV channels that my cable system offers, I would have somewhere around 300 channels. I don’t get the CBC. Al Gore’s hideous “Current” channel killed the best thing on cable: NewsWorld International. I don’t get the BBC. BBC America doesn’t count. I don’t get any broadcast or cable channels from Canada, the UK, or Australia. I don’t get the English language versions of broadcast systems from elsewhere in the world. Hell, I can’t even get CNN International, which presents an oh so slightly less reactionary take on the news than CNN. On day’s like today, I almost have trouble faulting my fellow countrymen for their ignorance of the world. It really seems as if our media companies conspire to keep us inside this tidy little reactionary bubble, a nation of Number Sixes who can’t leave their picturesque village.

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