I agree with your conclusion, let’s wait for the facts and tone down our rhetoric. Glad that you enjoyed your dinner. 🙂🙂
Loved George Will’s suggestion. Best way to somewhat calm the situation and divisions in our country would be to shut down all social media and FOX and MSNBC for a month, and Leo people deal with their withdrawal. But since he is supposedly a nation of Liberty and not a dictatorships despite the efforts to censor the media ( which will probably intensify as a result of this incident), instead we will each individually have to redouble our efforts to be thoughtful, civil and respectful of opinions with which we disagree. . Unlees of course they are insane and stupid 🙂🙂🙂
// my instincts when I first caught wind of the story were bad
I didn't quite understand this. Were your instincts actually bad? Or were you reading dubious headlines? If a seasoned news professional like yourself can't glean the gravity of a situation from even a couple news headlines, that seems to indicate media bias more than personal instinct. I think if you read "suspected assassination attempt" instead of "popping sounds", you'd have had a different initial reaction.
I agree with your conclusion, let’s wait for the facts and tone down our rhetoric. Glad that you enjoyed your dinner. 🙂🙂
Loved George Will’s suggestion. Best way to somewhat calm the situation and divisions in our country would be to shut down all social media and FOX and MSNBC for a month, and Leo people deal with their withdrawal. But since he is supposedly a nation of Liberty and not a dictatorships despite the efforts to censor the media ( which will probably intensify as a result of this incident), instead we will each individually have to redouble our efforts to be thoughtful, civil and respectful of opinions with which we disagree. . Unlees of course they are insane and stupid 🙂🙂🙂
// my instincts when I first caught wind of the story were bad
I didn't quite understand this. Were your instincts actually bad? Or were you reading dubious headlines? If a seasoned news professional like yourself can't glean the gravity of a situation from even a couple news headlines, that seems to indicate media bias more than personal instinct. I think if you read "suspected assassination attempt" instead of "popping sounds", you'd have had a different initial reaction.
It was my fault. I was presuming certain things based on scant information. It had nothing to do with headlines.