USA Today: “Rising costs reshaping air travel”, Everyone else: “Duh”
I strongly believe that I am like most people when it comes to being easily annoyed when I find that someone or something has pointlessly wasted my valuable time. I feel that it is safe to say that most other people share a similar disdain for this same type of irritation. Now before you decide that I am wasting your valuable time, I ask that you hear me out.
There’s an old adage, you may have heard it before - something to the effect of “time is money.” Nothing more quickly transforms me into an unhappy camper (read: perturbs me) than when I realize that one of these, my most precious and valuable commodities, have been needlessly wasted. I don’t know about you, but I am as careful about where and how I spend my time, as I am when it comes to how I spend my money.
Needless to say, I am perturbed often.
This perfectly describes how I felt when I read this piece on USA Today titled, ‘Rising costs reshaping air travel across the USA’. To say that the article did nothing more than regurgitate stale facts and (re)state the obvious would perhaps be the understatement of a lifetime. At least a dozen times throughout the read, I found myself thinking time and again, “Tell me something I don’t know.”
How many times do we need the same data reproduced into the same droning analysis we’ve already heard time and time again? We know about record-high oil prices. We are all too aware of “extreme fare increases” and “dramatic cutbacks.” We feel these things in the place they hurt the most: our pocketbooks.
So, because time is money and vice-versa, my question is this: is it just me or is it true that nearly everywhere we turn today for reliable news coverage and “informative” commentary, we instead find an ever-increasing assault on our collective intelligence and a shameful misappropriation of our time and attention by the very “trusted” sources we should be able to consistently rely on?
Perhaps in pointing this out, I too, have restated the obvious.
What do you think? Sound off in the comments with your thoughts and opinions.
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Geez - talk about a waste of time - reading this was certainly an excellent example. I am a big boy - can handle life - and am perfectable capable of deciding whether or not to complete an article. Good gosh - give it a break!