Out of the Woods?

[pRICE cUBE]

Blankity Blank wrote:
[quote=pRICE cUBE]It is an incredible case study.

Seems totally unremarkable to me.

Celebrated individual on pedestal revealed to have feet of clay. General public "shocked" by the totally unexpected fact that individual is human and not a demi-god. Media milks it for all its worth. Large segment of public goes into spasmodic paroxysms of schadenfreude and largely baseless speculation very often colored by varying degrees of bias, envy and a few other less than noble motivators. Frothing subsides till the next juicy bit tossed from the chum bucket of TMZ, the Drudge Report or some other lofty media outlet.

Baldwin's phone call to his kid, Barry's "Clear", Letterman's mistress, Tiger's 'harem', the carnival rolls on, the barkers work the crowd, the crowd gathers round with oohs and ahs and clucking tongues and wagging fingers.

I am thankful that we all don't think the same, like the same things and see things all the same. That is the beauty of public discussion, we all get to express our opinion or not post one at all.

I work with doctors all day and we discuss how images of various diseases such as cancer should look. What I do as a diversion such as follow this story and analyze it are interesting to me and takes my mind off looking at hundreds of images of different carcinomas and tumors pulled out from deceased patients. Maybe there is more serious and noteworthy stories but to me watching money, power, influence and how it collides is interesting case study.