Just what we (don’t) need, so don’t watch

Got my new issue of “Entertainment Weekly” in the mail today.   It is the one magazine that I read cover to cover every week, and I say that with pride.   It keeps me up to speed on movies, TV and books, with occasional columns from Stephen King that are worth the price of subscription all by themselves.

However.

This week I happily opened the latest issue and then almost immediately had to fight the urge to fling the thing across the room.   Why?   Because of the full page ad (on Page 3) for a new show called “Disappeared:  True Stories of the Missing and the Families Who Never Give Up Hope.”    Are you kidding me?   Do we not get enough coverage of missing children and kidnappings? (Case in point: have you seen the new cover of People magazine this week?)   Must we have an entire show dedicated to learning the minute details of the life of every missing person out there in addition to the 24/7 news coverage whenever a child disappears?

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The feeling that we know any abductee and their entire family as well as we do our own is an illusion, carefully fostered and maintained by the 24 hour media and shows like “Disappeared”.      This illusion keeps most people in a constant state of anxiety over something that will never happen.   Fear sells.   Fear also makes people easy to control.    Who might benefit from the control of people afraid of kidnappings, abductions and disapperances?    I can think of a few.

Can you?

About Amy

Amy Milstein was born and raised on a farm in Indiana, but after 20+ years considers herself a full-fledged New Yorker. She is married with two kids, who do not go to school but are instead life learners. This means they learn by living in the world (real life ) instead of hearing about it and simulating it in a classroom. With her family, Amy loves to travel, read, watch movies, write, sew, knit - the list is endless.
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