Welcome back to Calamity News, where the end is always a news story away!
The news has always been made up of what we call the ‘no way out’ narrative, which includes the run-of-the-mill weather disasters, slaying, shootings, fires, arsons, kidnappings and accidents (private and industrial), most of which have nothing to do with you.
In the past two decades the news outlets have amped up the ‘no way out’ stories by placing you, the reader/viewer, in to the story. Could the shooter in this story be living next to you? Will this foreign country attack us? Are terrorists living among us? Is that seemingly benign household object really deadly? Will you or your loved ones die in the same manner as the people in this story? Etc.
We poke fun at these stories, taking them to their logical extreme, placing you in the center of a world run by incompetent bureaucrats, hawkish military leaders and cut-throat middle-managers. In fact, the only ‘normal’ person can usually be found in the last paragraph: an ordinary man with fairly reasonable/logical views on the story. Yes, we base that character on you, the reader. You’re welcome.
Have a safe Labor Day weekend!
