I've Become My Mother

 Since the beginning of November, I have watched more CNN than all the rest of my life put together.  I check in with it a couple of times every day.  Mom watched this stuff all the time.  I never did.  I watch a lot of movies and a lot of  prime time shows.  Mostly I let the news be.  I find it to be depressing.  But this election and all that surrounds it had me captivated.  

I was talking with someone about CNN.  They are very much biased.  This is totally against every thing I was taught about journalism way back in the day.  Journalism is suppose to answer the who, what, where, how and /or why.  You are suppose to be careful of how you use descriptive words as they can imply bias.  My comment about that though was at least their bias is close to mine.  And I'm aware of it.  

Biased or not, I still got a pretty good feel of how the election went.  Most highly scrutinized election ever.  Highest turnout ever.  

Biased or not, I got a real feel of how the lawsuits went.  

Biased or not, I got a too real feel of the storming of the capitol.  My instant reaction was the same as 911.  I have a friend on FB who was there and said if you weren't there you have no idea what happened and only a few people went in the capitol.  I heard people on the ground say it was antifa that did it.  I'm sure I did not see all that happened.  I'm sure my friend did not storm the capitol, but she was there.  All those people shown breaking in and then being arrested were not antifa. There were a lot more than a few people who went in.  A crowd so angry they wanted to hang the vice-president and thank goodness they didn't find him to see if they really would.  

I believe it was a fair and free election.  All legal votes were counted and it played out the way it was voted.  I think there is a lot of work to be done in the future and I'm not sure how some of it is going to be done.  I don't think it will be easy to reunited our divided country.  But the best thing I heard on CNN was when one of their commentators said...it is time to get back to the business of journalism and lose the bias.  I agree.