Nightly news

I stopped paying attention to the major network’s nightly news some time during the during the Vietnam war and have watched it only sporadically ever since. I’m watching it semi – regularly these days, but I don’t really know why.

I’ve noticed something that amuses me. Most of the commercials for all three network shows are from the pharmaceutical industry and every show has at least one story on the health care industries. And many, but not all, of these stories are “feel good” stories that put the industries in a good light.

If I were a suspicious person, I would think that the health care industries are buying favorable publicity as their prices continue to rise at more than twice the rate of inflation, as they have ever since World War II.