You could probably do that for just about any event where media are at with the right picture. Cameras and sound gear are pretty damn obtrusive.
And you are right, the media shouldn't blow things out of proportion when people really don't give a shit. That is my main problem with the media, that a tiny event in relative terms that everyone will forget about soon becomes a big deal.
The Somali Pirates story is a great example. I guarantee in one year almost no one will even remember it happened. The same thing for Obama not wearing a lapel pin and McCain saying he would have to get back on reporters on federal funding on birth control. I mean at least the latter had something to do with an actual social policy the guy has, but both were blown out of proportion.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
