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Nothing to say

Quite an oxymoron don't you think? I mean - if I did not have anything to say what the heck am I typing for? But such is life these days.

Many outlets in the so called broadcasting business or serious journalism for that matter are filling the void with something akin to antimatter. What they publish is actually detrimental for the common good. Of course its just another point of view of where things are. Mine!

Take for example the ramblings about the state of the economy. Do we really need a 24 x 7 news channel to make that point? As someone once noted - when you are unemployed the unemployment rate is 100%, no matter what the averages and the government or the so called pundits are yakking.

So fear-mongering and ratings battle aside (rated by equally airheaded peers) there is not much that comes our way of intelligent and informed reporting. No matter, the public which is dazed and confused uses it as a tool for passing time - watercooler conversations that again have no value add other than to distract them from their dull and administrative jobs.

I have really found it difficult past few weeks to think of anything worthwhile to pound out (on a blog that only maybe I read - eh eh providing some sort of destress mechanism) and thus the marked reduction in the average of blogs produced per week as compared with the TTM (traling twelve month average for those blissfully unaware of the statistical mumbo jumbo).

It would be truly fantastic to one day wake up and turn to a news channel or a website and see blank pages or empty chairs where the 'anchor' (now that title is also a debatable subject - for another day to blog about) sits and a note that reads "WE HAVE NO NEWS. ENJOY THE DAY"!

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