NYT Newsroom

Chicago’s mayor race has joined the growing list of evidence that Americans are unhappy about crime.

That was the headline in this morning’s online New York Times “Morning.”  I had to have a second cup of coffee while I thought it over.  Then, I read the entire article.  An article from the most prestigious (some say) newspaper in our country.

Not the coffee, not the thinking, not the careful, in-depth reading helped.  I just could not get beyond “the growing list of evidence that Americans are unhappy about crime.”

Growing list of evidence?  Really?? Now we need a list of evidence to show that we are unhappy about crime???  Is there any other reader out there wo sees anything wrong with that sentence?  Anything at all?

Once again I am reminded of why I quit watching, listening to, reading, and otherwise coming into contact with “the news.”  This isn’t news, folks.  It isn’t even a series of words put into any kind of logical context.    The closest I can come to a description is “gobbledygook.”

If you can straighten me out, please try.  From my point of view, our nation has come to a sorry pass when the (supposedly) most prestigious newspaper in the country makes such a claim.  A growing list of evidence??  Americans are unhappy about crime??  Unhappy????  Like being unhappy that my hamburger was overdone?

As my friend Tom Akerlund used to say, “Help me to understand!”