So, I am doing a little Spring Cleaning on the computer and came across this project from five years ago. I was trying to gauge the manipulation of the news media by documenting the top stories that were saturating the airwaves back in the day. I am sure that most of us have forgotten these, but a quick glance through them reminds us that the more things (seem to) change, the more they actually stay the same.
September 12, 2015
Worry #1 - The Pope is coming, the Pope Is coming.
Worry #2 - Trump or Fiorini - CUCH!
Worry #3 - ....(ow yea, 700 Muslims died yesterday on the Haj)
September 2, 2015
Worry #1 - Negro Shot by Cop....
Worry #2 - Cop shot by negro......
Worry #3 - ....(repeat ad infinitum)
August 30, 2015 ·
Worry #1 - Trump/Cruz/Paul/Huckabee/Clinton
Worry #2 - Going to any crowded location where a mass shooting could occur
Worry #3 - Bad weather, somewhere, somehow.
March 26, 2015 ·
Worry #1 - Co-Pilot Crashes German Airliner - Luftansa/Luftwaffe
Worry #2 - Ted Cruz is the first one in the pool - be afraid, very afraid.
Worry #3 - Bergdahl - AWOL. (5 terrorists traded for this?)
March 13, 2015 ·
Worry #1 - Wait Wait, more killings in Ferguson MS, they aren't done yet!
Worry #2 - More Drunken Secret Service antics, are these guys the modern day Keystone Cops?
Worry #3 - Senators are not conducting Foreign Policy (Iran Letter)
March 12, 2015 ·
Worry #1 - Hillary's e-mail
Worry #2 - ISIS killings, now with little children!
Worry #3 - Apple Watch - EVERYWHERE
February 5, 2015 ·
Worry #1 - Un-Vaccinated children (really?)
Worry #2 - Be burned alive in a cage....yes, religion of compassion and love indeed)
Worry #3 - Don't fly on ANY Asian Air Line.
January 15, 2015 ·
Worry #1 - Charlie Hebdo - France has terrorist too!
Worry #2 - Mitt Romney - Third Times A Charm?
Worry #3 - Boko Haram like to kill lots of people, somewhere in Africa.
December 30, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Another Asian Airliner bites the dust.
Worry #2 - Attempted ambush of LAPD officers (is there a trend here?)
Worry #3 - Everybody owns a drone now.
December 22, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Police officers Executed in NY (didn't see that coming)
Worry #2 - Cyber War with North Korea (maybe we will get to see Kim Jung Un's emails now)
Worry #3 - Bad Christmas Travel weather - same thing every year.
December 18, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - North Korea / Sony Hacking (why is this news?)
Worry #2 - Normalized Relations with Cuba (woo who.... cigars!)
Worry #3 - Terrorist killing in Sydney, Australia / School Massacre in Pakistan.
December 15, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Gunman Hold Up Everywhere, Sydney - Philadelphia
Worry #2 - Sony Pictures hacking, never ends....
Worry #3 - More Storms Hit California
Greg Martin
December 11, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - California Super Storm
Worry #2 - CIA Torture Report
Worry #3 - Sony Pictures email hacking.
December 8, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Riots from Ferguson Decision
Worry #2 - Riots from NY Decision
Worry #3 - California Rain
December 4, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Islamic State Attacks
Worry #2 - California Rains.
Worry #3 - NY Police Officer Killing Acquittal
November 28, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Ferguson is burning
Worry #2 - Bill Cosby still Raping.
Worry #3 - Black Friday Shopping
November 24, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Bill Cosby has fathered million's of children through rape?
Worry #2 - Ferguson MS Grand Jury results pending
Worry #3 - First lots of snow, now lots of melting.....FLOOD!
November 20, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Another college shooting somewhere, shooter dead, again
Worry #2 - Ferguson MS Grand Jury results pending
Worry #3 - Bill Cosby is a serial rapist, but denies it.
November 19, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - November Winter Storm - Snow everywhere!
Worry #2 - Ferguson MS Grand Jury results pending
Worry #3 - Bill Cosby is a rapist!
November 14, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Republicans Control Everything! (Except Obama)
Worry #2 - Ebola Nurses and Doctors that come home.
Worry #3 - Russian Bombers off our coasts (is it 1962 again?)
October 31, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Ebola Nurses
Worry #2 - More High School Shootings
Worry #3 - Mid-term Elections
October 23, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Ebola
Worry #2 - Quebec Parliament Shooting
Worry #3 - Radicalized ISIS youth
October 16, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Ebola
Worry #2 - Ebola
Worry #3 - Ebolapocolypse
(But surprisingly nothing more about Hannah Graham or the police shooter in Pennsylvania that has been on the run for over a month.)
October 8, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Ebola
Worry #2 - Ebola
Worry #3 - ISIS Be-headings
September 29, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Mystery Virus Similar to Polio
Worry #2 - Ebola back in the news
Worry #3 - Hannah Graham abduction / murder
September 17, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Hurricane Odile
Worry #2 - iPhone 6 and Apple Watch
Worry #3 - Domestic Violence in the NFL
September 8, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Another New Royal Baby
Worry #2 - Major storms across the US
Worry #3 - Ukraine Sanctions / Islamic State Retaliation
September 4, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Another Be-Heading by ISIS Militants
Worry #2 - Naked Celebrity Cell Phone Hacking
Worry #3 - Ebola and Fighting in Iraq / Civil War
August 21, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Foley Be-Heading by ISIS Militants
Worry #2 - Ferguson MS shooting and rioting
Worry #3 - Ebola and Fighting in Iraq / Civil War
August 18, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Ferguson MS shooting and rioting
Worry #2 - Ebola and Fighting in Iraq / Civil War
Worry #3 - ISIS genocide in Iraq
August 15, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Ferguson MS shooting and rioting
Worry #2 - Weather, Flooding on the East Coast
Worry #3 - Ebola and Fighting in Iraq / Civil War
August 5, 2014 ·
Worry #1 - Still Ebola
Worry #2 - Weather, Flooding in California
Worry #3 - Israel / Gaza - more mass killing - rocket attacks.