On the first day of this new year 2011...

Associated Press ran this headline:

Bolivia's Morales: Fuel prices to rise 'someday'

this is not news. this is a simple fact of life that just about any 2nd grader in the industrialized world could have told us assuming there are any of us out here who couldn't predict this without assistance.

I want old news, like Walter used to read to us every night. Walter told us things we did not know, and he explained why it was important to know. with walter we learned things about the world we lived in. Nowdays we have traded objective reporting for a flood of data that is almost instantaneous and constant but is mostly either drivel or made up of unverified pseudofacts.

Down with twitter!