Behind the Headlines

This really has nothing to do with anything, but… I remember a concept from somewhere that says basically this: once you acknowledge you’re experiencing an emotion, particularly happiness or joy, that moment is then robbed by that consciousness and you can no longer just feel, you indicate a feeling. Anyway, I was looking at one of my usually favorite websites yesterday and it seemed to lack something. www.slowwave.com is where you write in to the illustrator and then he draws your dream like a comic in four panes. It just seems like now that it’s in on the joke, it’s no longer funny or quirky in that unknowing way.

I feel like this happened last week with Bill O’Reilly and Steven Colbert. Was it me, or was watching that like eating oatmeal? Cold, flavorless oatmeal. And that makes me think about how this all relates to being a reporter. Does this mean, once we report on the news, it ceases to be news?