Partner and I get up at 7:00 am or a little after. We have slightly different routines. I go into the living room, read my email and drink my coffee; he stays in the bedroom, reads his email, watches “Good Morning America,” and drinks his coffee.
Naturally I can hear most of the dialogue.
At 7:30am, “Good Morning America” almost invariably features a story about a missing child. The child is almost always white, by the way. They usually have the irrational Nancy Grace and the mostly-imperturbable Dan Abrams doing Point Counterpoint on the subject.
Naturally there’s no real information. Nancy always assumes the worst, and declares it, and announces that anyone who disagrees with her is a fool and an ivory-tower intellectual and a goddamned liberal.
Dan Abrams usually points out, mildly, that all the facts aren’t in, and more work needs to be done on the case.
Nancy explodes, calls Dan an ivory-tower intellectual and a goddamned liberal, and wants to know why more isn’t being done to bring this case to its (obvious) conclusion.
Some thoughts:
- I wonder how many missing children there are in the USA today.
- I wonder how many of them are non-white.
- I wonder why we so seldom hear about the non-white missing children on “Good Morning America,” and I wonder if it’s because they’re just not considered to be so angelically adorable.
- I wonder that they pair the astonishingly illogical Nancy Grace with the perfectly reasonable Dan Abrams, and allow her to snarl at him idiotically, just for the sake of TV entertainment.
- I wonder what percentage of these poor children are ever located.
And finally: I wonder that the TV doesn’t actually explode with the whole idiotic illogicality of the thing.
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