"For example, “What does it say about our culture when in the midst of a million other more serious issues, we are all glued to the television in an overreaction to a balloon-related event that ended up being nothing at all?”

Might be another finger pointing to crazy amount of power media has to set our agendas. Scary to think that many times our concerns are based on the stories the media monster decides should be important to us while some truly important issues are left in the dark, not even given the opportunity to be cared about.

My shout out to this post at http://sarahpahl.blogspot.com. This concept is still changing my life.