QUESTIONS, OUTRAGE ENDURE AS SHOCK SUBSIDES

When I saw this description of Iraq on CNN, I was thunderstruck - to what news story might this compelling phrase NOT be attached? It seems to describe virtually all notable events, ferry sinkings, Michael Jackson, explosions, the GNP, the GOP, the O.P.P., the G.O.D., and your average vicious comic book swap meet. Is this then, the collective unconscious news, the seminal human reaction to all events? One waits, one ponders, one picks the stinky plaque of falsehood from the teeth of daily being. Fueled by an implosive synthesis, one's mind boils in a spicy chicken broth of truth, to be served later with buttered asparagus and a jaunty little margaux. The pee may smell funny, but we have reached a new level of self-awaritude. We know that what it is when it is news.