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Sunday Night Open Thread

By Jeralyn

There's a lot on new TV tonight: Pacific, Treme, Breaking Bad, Nurse Jackie, Celebrity Apprentice, Desperate Housewives and Brothers and Sisters. With tivo, I should be set for the week. What are you watching?

In the good news department, five airlines have said for now they won't charge carry-on luggage fees: Delta, United, US Air and JetBlue. Who's missing? Continental.

The media is going overboard in its coverage of tomorrow's 15th anniversary of the OKC bombing, particularly in its efforts to make it more relevant today by comparing it to those who engage in outspoken criticism of the Government, as if there's some homogeneous equation between them. The Oklahoman in its editorial today:

Any anniversary is hard for those losing a loved one to whatever cause. Birthday. Wedding. Day of death. Rounded anniversaries — 10 years, 15 years, 50 — aren’t necessarily more significant to the survivors than an "ordinary” mark of time.

They seem to matter more to the media and society than to the survivors. They matter most to those who exploit anniversaries for a political agenda or to rekindle the long-doused fires of conspiracy theories.

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

Full post as published by TalkLeft on April 18, 2010 (boomark / email).