Posted on Saturday, 2nd August 2008 by Bruce
A couple of days ago, the local NewsGods, via their online NewsWatch, posed one of their typical, fairly innocuous yet mildly amusing question-blurbs (How are we doing? May we fix you a cool beverage? May we check your oil?) asking readers who might have “suffered injuries while text-messaging” to check in with the mother ship.
This morning, on NBC’s Today Show, their lead feature story sought to prove that emergency rooms across the country suddenly find themselves besieged with text-messaging related injuries.
Clearly, this is the next media “fear-du-jour” beginning to emerge. But, in the interest of keeping an open mind, is it possible this truly is a legitimate problem?
Are Americans in record numbers suddenly driving into guard-rails and falling down open man-hole covers while in the throes of ROFLTAO and getting the 411?
Or is this just another example of the American media trying desperately to fill that empty void between the last round of American Idol and the November elections?
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August 2nd, 2008 at 12:47 pm
Text messaging… what’s that? Never heard of it
Someone, I think it may have been Jeff Wagner, was talking about a city that is trying to outlaw texting while walking because some moron got hit by a car crossing the street or some such foolishness.
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 pm
What I’ve thought was interesting is that the focus is on the texting morons and no attention is paid to the people who have been injured or killed by said morons. Seems completely backwards to me.
August 2nd, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Actually what I am dying to know, (Pun intended) is who are these MORONS who are actually admitting to engaging in this behavior?
It seems to me you would have to be a totally disconnected boob, to actually admit to doing such a thing while driving!
I know people who have enough trouble working the throttle and the power windows at the same time!
August 3rd, 2008 at 2:02 pm
The Morning Scramble (Sunday brunch edition) – 8/3/2008…
This one’s dedicated to Sean Hackbarth, who will be the online communications specialist for the Senate Republican Conference as of Monday. Just don’t ask me how Fausta got a hold of pics from the back-to-work celebration.
So, it…