Hey, I'm not done thinking about that!

You know when you're watching the news and you hear about a killer on the loose, and then all of a sudden they start talking about a recall on cookies? Yeah, I hate that too. I wasn't done worrying about that killer on the loose and you decided to talk about cookies. Doesn't that seem a little odd to you? In chapter 7 of Amusing Ourselves to Death, Postman talks about how the news anchors use the phrase "now...this" to transition into another topic. What I don't get is why they talk about something life threatening first and their next topic is about rainbows and butterflies. It would be better if they transitioned by saying "For more information on that, visit our website." What if that killer is right outside my door, but I didn't get a chance to hear that because you just had to talk about cookies. Postman is absolutely correct when he says that the media controls what we think and for how long we can think about it. I feel as though the news program is telling me what I should think about and when I should stop thinking about that issue. It's as if they spend less time talking about the important things and more time on the irrelevant topics. The media does indeed control us. Did you ever realize that the television producers can make us come to the t.v. whenever they want? A new episode of Glee is on and we blow off the best party of the year just so we can watch. I'm guilty of situations like that and it's weird how Postman knew exactly how we would react to television when he wrote this book before we were even born! If the t.v. can control us through television shows, what else in our society has been controlling us, and for how long have we been going with out noticing?