So every day I check my iCloud email which gets only special meaningful emails. Or at least that is my intention. Not the gmail one which is all purpose.
Apple apparently thinks it’s ok to send “news” reports being caught up in the cloud as they are. I finally figured out how to get them funneled into the junk folder. “Spam” is not a thing with those. It does not exist, so they still clutter up things and must be deleted.
The curious thing is that almost every one of them begins with, “Here’s what you need to know about…” As someone who loves to write and is allergic to, um, baloney, I can say that they need to know that this is a really dreadfully predictable way to introduce anything anyone really needs to know.
What’s also predictable is that I will put it in the trash folder and delete it without opening it. This also goes for other things that read, “Breaking news!” Or other sensationalist cliches which are intended to bring some “crisis” to your attention, which you already knew 2 weeks ago.
Another favorite is “Bombshell report!” Well, empty shells, bomb or otherwise, don’t pack much of a wallop now, do they? Thud. Clink. Fizzle.
Oh where, oh where have real journalists gone? Hard to be real when you’re told what to say or write, and your 6 or 7 figure a year income makes you keep repeating the same thing you’re told to regurgitate.
That’s why I like hanging with the bloggers. No hype about need to know, breaking news, or bombshells. Just real thoughts from real people.
Until later,
Blaiseintotheblue
Into And Out Of The Blue 