What’s Special About Apr 18?
Today is No News Day for BBC.
How can there be No News?!
It’s unthinkable and impossible for modern society.
On Apr 18, 1930, the BBC’s news announcer said, “There is no news,” because he had finished reading everything he was supposed to read from the script — BBC had no news. Then piano music followed for the rest of the 15-minute program.
Isn’t it a great idea? I mean, No News.
I suggest every country should have a No News Day each year, each month, or better still, each week, although my real wish is there was no news at all.
It is better than inventing lies, producing and delivering disinformation every day in the countries where news is made through multiple-layered censorship thieves, isn’t it?
I don’t read the news every day, not because the volume is enormous, the quality is degrading, or the content is disturbing, but because most information it carries has little or nothing to do with me — you see, I have had no idea who is the mayor of my city, but I have had a great life so far.
Thomas Jefferson said, “The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.”
I am a little more educated than the man Jefferson referred to — I have too many books to read, and I have better things to do than reading the news.
If no news is good news, I wish the world had no more breaking news.
