Today's Minute

Although several inches of snow were all that was predicted for St. Louis, local reporters went right into crisis mode as the first flakes fell.  They stood by highways, gave us zoom-in shots of salt on the roadway, checked the flight board at the airport, and did the mandatory report on old people ravaging grocery stores.  During these reports the control rooms ran footage of the big snow dump in the east.  Yes, the east did get something serious but Diane and I laughed at the snow job here.

As a kid, we got one newspaper, had one radio, and one TV with four channels.  Glenn Ward lists “the multiplication of cultural mediators,” including “numerous pundits who populate the media,” “cultural commentators,” “lifestyle magazines,” “makers of television programs” and “the multiplying range of caring professions.”  (“Postmodernism,” p. 122).  The media simplicity of the past is now a blizzard of facts, fictions, and deceptions that leave us wondering what to believe.

“There is no end to books (and media), and too much study will wear you out.  Everything you were taught can be put into a few words: Respect and obey God!  This is what life is all about.  God will judge everything we do, even what is done in secret, whether good or bad.”  (Ecclesiastes 12:13-14)