A Silence Louder Than Words

There used to be a saying that the most dangerous place in the world was between Chuck Schumer and a CNN Camera, as it happens, I do not know whether the saying is true, but there are more desirable places to be—such as the bottom of a volcano or strapped to the side of one of Elon’s rockets. Politicians will do anything to get in front of a camera to speak there minds. Rest assured, that no matter how small of a seat, no matter how minute their importance to the lives of even the people they represent—your politicians, even your local governor would say yes to camera time if he had absolutely nothing to say. As it happens, that is the only time Schumer requests camera time, it’s only a coincidence he has nothing to say or much to say that is filled with nothing.

It is therefore almost easier to listen to the sound of silence. One can almost be certain with deadly accuracy, that if there is an event that is happening that the politicians are not talking about—that it’s a story worth telling.

Such is the case with East Palestine, Ohio. By now you’ve heard, there was a train spill there, of a sort, the sort that leaks the same chemicals used to fight WWI into the air. The politicians could have never expected that their deafening silence on the matter of a small town nuked by chemicals would have been so deafening. But this isn’t the age of the Legacy Press anymore. And their reeling because of it. Now, a simple citizen like you and me has as much reporting power as a talking head at one of the biggest networks in the world.

Me, with my pen, sitting in my robe at my desk writing to you each morning my thoughts and ideas about the news. My reporting can carry almost all the weight as one of those heads on Fox, CNN, or MSNBC. They used to tell the story with their words, but now they tell the story with their silence.

And we used to tell our stories through our silence, but now we tell it with our words.