I felt sickened and ashamed when I turned on the 11 o’clock news last night here in New York, in the wake of that unbelievably horrific murder of four police officers in Washington State, and found the newscasters leading with a story about a professional golfer who crashed his car into a tree, got some scrapes and bruises, and may be having trouble in his marriage; i.e., the same story which has been at the top for much of the American media for days. And second only to that has been the story about the White House reality-TV gatecrashers. (The story about the White House security lapse has significance; the story of these people’s ridiculous and empty lives does not.) Sometimes the petty and demeaning and insulting level of much of what passes for news coverage really exceeds itself — but then something truly serious happens which momentarily corrects the focus.

Yet it seemed to me last night that we’ve now reached the point where the truly serious cannot even be recognized.

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Addendum: Some personal words about the four fallen officers have been posted on the website of the Lakewood Police Independent Guild.

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