at Under Reported:
According to a Nov. 13, 2003 Washington Post article:
The scene was a public library branch in Silver Spring. As Cathy B. Johnson entered, she was "astounded" to see a television set in the main lobby. It was muted, but it was very definitely on, and it was spewing pictures as only a TV set can.
Cathy saw red. She marched over to a librarian and asked why library patrons -- and young patrons in particular -- "couldn't have one place in the world where they were not bombarded by TV."
According to Cathy, the librarian pointed out that the set was aimed at a waiting area, where people sit until they get a crack at a public computer terminal.
The TV was on, Cathy says the librarian told her, so that those lying in wait "would have something to do."
Open mouth.
Gape in astonishment.
As Cathy promptly said to the librarian: "They couldn't read a book?"
Sorry, your gaping isn't done.
Cathy quotes the librarian as replying: "Internet users don't like to read."

also

According to a Nov. 14, 2003 UPI story:
The number of U.S. casualties from Operation Iraqi Freedom -- troops killed, wounded or evacuated due to injury or illness -- has passed 9,000, according to new Pentagon data.
In addition to the 397 service members who have died and the 1,967 wounded, 6,861 troops were medically evacuated for non-combat conditions between March 19 and Oct. 30, the Army Surgeon General's office said.

Medically evacuated for 'non-combat conditions' they said??? Are they seriously trying to say that nearly 7000 service members were so badly wounded that they had to be removed from the country, but it's not combat related? What, they all got heat-stroke? Starvation, maybe? Perhaps complications from unhealthy living conditions??? Ooooh, I'd better stop. I could rant all night over this one. If you want to make yourself sick, read the article, then scroll down to the two pictures of young men with that physically fit, fresh scrubbed, just-out-of-boot-camp look... and note the missing parts. That bit particularly upset me, because both men look a lot like my hubby did when he got out of the military, except he still has all his bits.