Very Slow News TV?

I'm getting close to or more than 1000 hits a day. I could easily up these numbers by referring to a wider variety of people and ideas. But I really am interested in quality of discussion.

I wanted originally to open this blog as a place of VERY SLOW NEWS, in which a kind of consensus could develop, against the polarities that talk radio, and the nightly news work on.

Originally I wanted to create peace between the avant-gardes and the
Protestant tradition.

But I fell into the trap of polarizing in order to up quantities, and threw quality out of the window.

Rush, Imus and their like live on feeding red meat to the consumer. Red meat makes you mad as hell, and ready to kill somebody. I wanted instead to slowly build common ground between various factions.

While I have done that, I wonder if I could do it better.

Finding common ground is a very very slow process. It's inherently untelegenic where every news second costs so much, and what we seem to want are train wrecks, terrorist attacks, and child kidnappers being taken from their walled compounds.

Very Slow News -- even Jesus couldn't stand to go slowly. He had to race right into Jerusalem and get himself killed, so that the good news would shoot around the world.

What about patience? What about people who make peace at work, so that no one ends up chaining themselves to a column, and tearing the place down ala Samson?

What about the people who notice that someone is upset, and chill them so that they don't ultimately run berserk?

Would anybody watch?

Would sponsors pay for such a molasses show?

What about all the countries in the world like Liechtenstein and Greenland, where there is no indigenous revolution, and where people are relatively happy?

What about all the denominations that aren't splintering, and aren't fomenting rage?

Terrorists of various stripes and news stations have a natural alliance since they both want attention and they want it NOW.

Peace is inherently boring. Could we liven it up and make it more telegenic, more readable? what about the thousand acts of ordinary decency that don't get reported? What about all the areas of our lives with which we're basically satisfied?

All those things would make for a Very Slow News day. I wish a station would come on called VERY SLOW NEWS based on the principle that collisions of values and cars and planes with buildings may make neat visuals, but they are a distraction from the real work of finding adequate solutions to everyday problems.