Lurid Sex

As i surf the news this morning on the internet, having given up the daily newspaper, i started noting the lurid sentences that appear in news articles enticing people to continue reading, not for informational purposes, but to get the nasties of the details. Long ago, i gave up reading human interest stories about people, because invariably when i knew the whole story, the news was incorrect and embellished. In the many interviews that i have given, i have generally been taken out of context because i string ideas into paragraphs, not sentences. When my words are shortened, the editor always seems to clip the zingers.

Today, it struck me that in most of the news articles that i read, i caugh hook lines leading to lurid details that i have no way of validating as true or false, on anything i know from outside the story that i have read. This is junk information, only for lurid purpose, and has no business in pieces meant for real information exchange. So we should not mention SEX, unless we are talking about sex (or advertising).

(this would have made a better EH - 69 topic, eh)