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Beautifully written, and too familiar.
My parents keep the 24 hour news channels on about 12 hours a day; frequently FOX, but CNN too. They are addicted to it emotionally. It is like a drug for them.
While my wife and I live nearby and visit fairly regularly, we spent 3 months earlier this year living 3000 miles away. When we returned to Florida, we stayed with my parents and, even though they hadn't seen us in months, they couldn't bring themselves to turn the tv off and have a conversation with us. It always had to be on, and they had to know what the latest was on the lost girl in Aruba, the plane that had crashed or was about to crash, or which anchor person was moving to a new network. It was sad.
I imagine the right-wing talk radio works in much the same fashion. It adrenalinizes them, and they get hooked.
Thanks for sharing this with us, Wil.
