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Writing that the story of JonBenet Ramsey is thecontemporary version of the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, Chris Larsen winds up a rant about quality news versus media madness with the question

"Is it possible our value system has corrupted our reality?"

I don't know if there is some new brand of corruption of reality. I don't see this generation is all that different than those past in that respect. The lines that once defined 'society pages' from political, financial, local and world events are blurred within different delivery methods and more of them - -

Big Crop of Crash Dummies
Published in The Pilot
by Chris Larson

"For her birthday, my father would always give his aunt a subscription to The Christian Science Monitor.

He didn't do this because of any political or religious views that great newspaper would propound. He liked The Monitor simply because it refused to sensationalize the "Lindbergh baby story."

For those too young to remember or who may have missed that paragraph in your American history books, the kidnapping and death of Charles Lindbergh's baby was the JonBenet Ramsey story of its day.

I bring this up because the last few weeks have been ­pretty much filled with nonstop stories about a professional golfer crashing his expensive SUV in the middle of the night and a pair of con artists crashing a party at the president's house...."[...read more]

Chris Larsen, who formerly worked in public relations and lobbying in Washington, lives in Southern Pines. Contact him at cdlars42@gmail.com.