Distracting CNN

Whenever I am in the hotel room, I have the TV on.  However, this time it is only CNN.  The report on Fort Hood whom one soldier killed 3 others and wounding 16.  It is very distracting and the story repeats and repeats.  I have to turn it off.  The American mass media can be mind numbing.

With the TV on, I do my work, surf the net and write my blog.  I just turn off the tv and the silence is welcoming.  The American news are in your face type.  BBC world news is far more soothing and analysis more refined and gentlemanly.  The shrill American values about family and the tragedy upon the individual family who members are killed are magnified.  In contrast, the Japanese grief quietly.