BEGGING FOR A 1 DAY MORATORIUM ON POLITICAL NEWS 9/2

Dear NBC, ABC, CNN, FOX NEWS, WALL STREET JOURNAL, WASHINGTON POST, ETC. ETC., ETC.

I suggest we declare a one day moratorium on political news on September 2, commemorating the end of World War II in 1945.  

Think of how wonderful it would be.  You open your newspaper and read about important events going on in the world or your own city.  You check your computer or cellphone, and don’t see a picture of Stormy Daniels or Paul Ryan.  You turn on the evening news and once again, you can trust that you will not have to look at  Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin.  You will not hear one newscaster spending a full hour berating the president, or turn to another station to hear another newscaster defending the president.  Nada. Nothing. Verboten.  I don’t know what they will find to talk about, but surely they can think of something.

Isn’t there anything else of interest going on in the world but politics?  Wildfires and flooding are actual news.  Tragedies like school shootings and duck boat accidents are deserving of all the news reports they can get.  We know that negativity is the name of the game in the media racket today.   Sex, lies, murder, disgrace, downfalls of the rich and famous.  That’s what sells, so we can understand that sort of coverage is never going to end.   Honestly, I don’t care what you report or don’t report.  Just please, please, all media sources: get together  and announce that for one pleasant, beautiful day, we don’t have to read or hear about politics.

Let's try and extend the moratorium across the country, and encourage people to talk about anything but politics. You know what might happen on that particular day?  People might carry on conversations about last night's baseball game, or where they went on vacation.  The “socialist” on the left and the “nazi”  on the right might find out they actually kind of like each other.

What will the activists do that day?  I would suggest they pack up a picnic lunch, buy a bottle of wine, and go to the beach.