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Potpourri: Jan. 7, 2013
Sometimes all the gun massacres, hurricanes, suicide bombings, twisters, tsunamis, child-molestings, floods, airstrikes on civilians, wildfires and other tragedies on TV news seem almost like a bizarre disaster movie watched by millions. But never forget that they're terribly real to the shattered victims involved. In the classic film "Network," a TV newsman tells his jaded lover, a news colleague: "You're television incarnate: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer."
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Potpourri: Jan. 7, 2013
Sometimes all the gun massacres, hurricanes, suicide bombings, twisters, tsunamis, child-molestings, floods, airstrikes on civilians, wildfires and other tragedies on TV news seem almost like a bizarre disaster movie watched by millions. But never forget that they're terribly real to the shattered victims involved. In the classic film "Network," a TV newsman tells his jaded lover, a news colleague: "You're television incarnate: Indifferent to suffering; insensitive to joy. All of life is reduced to the common rubble of banality. War, murder, death are all the same to you as bottles of beer."
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