Every day on my morning ride from Manhattan to Newark, I grab the AM News. It serves me for a quick read, before taking to my blackberry for news that may have caught my attention and requires further reading. The news for the most part, is always the same, funding’s being cut for this, that and the third, employee layoff’s, public outrage, union’s who’s only concerns are about 2% raises not the possible 14% staff layoff’s, and the favorite race of all,which State has the biggest debt!
One article caught my attention this morning. “Anger at MTA heats up”, while the title is pretty much what one would expect here in NYC, what strikes me are two things. The first thing is the picture used to accompany the article. The title would lead you to believe that the blurry picture, is not a common picture, but let me inform you! That picture was taken about 100 paces away from the world trade center’s NJ Path train’s last stop. That’s doesn’t include several NYC’s MTA trains running along the surrounding blocks, world trade construction going on, and let’s not forget it is Downtown Manhattan, The Financial district after all. So to ever be in the area prior or after work, or any time in between is to be surrounded by chaos. Is that chaotic atmosphere all the creation of the MTA, nah, but still it’s the image used to portray New Yorkers frustration with service changes. I’m not saying that New Yorkers aren’t up in arms over Sunday’s cut by the MTA, since my bus runs on a restricted schedule and disappears all together late night which means, that on a wonderful summer night I’m forced to hop in a cab, or find an alternate route home!
The second thing with the article at a quick glance is “one C train rider reported on twitter”. Honestly why not just give the twitter users name. Wouldn’t that be the correct thing to do? I’m just saying, it couldn’t have been that hard to name the author of the tweet, doesn’t that tweeter deserve proper recognition! I’m pretty sure that person’s profile is public, if so there’s no harm done. Maybe the author of the article is protecting its sources!
So you may be asking, is there a point to this post? Well, yes and no! Yes, we all, need to look at all forms of information we consume in this day and age! What we read, see, and hear on radio, tv, and print. We must realize there’s always a purpose for the information being portrayed. Don’t think it doesn’t. What, we can do is take time to try and understand what is really being said! There’s nothing wrong with questioning what we are being fed, just be aware it will require you to do some further research! If your not inclined to doing some extra research, then I just say this was a pointless post and for you this post has no point! Well I’m arriving at Newark! Enjoy your day!
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