More Than

Maybe because it is a Sunday, the day I usually watch morning TV.

I think that’s another old embedded habit I may relinquish soon.

Because I am weary of opinions.

I thirst for facts, not bright, beautiful personalities spilling out their views on current events or news.

If the facts are presented with accuracy, I would like the privilege of interpreting them myself.

I am not a Rhodes scholar, but maybe that is the definition of diversity. Our country is made up of a melange of different intellectual abilities and educations.

Yet we do not need national teachers telling us what to think.

It is our privilege as citizens, and seemingly one that is slowly and ever so steadily disappearing.

I long for a newscast that just reports the news. Later, if desired, have an opinion segment. However, this may not increase ratings.

That could be the reason, flat, unvarnished statistics in reporting are now seemingly extinct.

Over a hundred years ago, Adolph S. Ochs, the owner of The New York Times, created the famous slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print,"

The slogan was a declaration of the newspaper's intention to report the news impartially and is still used by The New York Times.

I wish I believed the words were still observed not only by newspapers but major TV channels.

Everyone has a right to have an opinion, but it is incredibly difficult to form an unbiased one without total knowledge of the facts.

To quote a long departed fictional hero,

“Just the facts, ma'am."

That’s what America needs now, more than a deluge of opinions.