Don't know whether you heard about this
but Denzel Washington and his family visited
the troops at Brook Army Medical Center, in
San Antonio , Texas (BAMC) the other day. This
is where soldiers who have been evacuated from
Germany come to be hospitalized in the United
States, especially burn victims. There are some
buildings there called Fisher Houses. The Fisher
House is a Hotel where soldiers' families can stay,
for little or no charge, while their soldier is staying
in the Hospital. BAMC has quite a few of these houses
on base, but as you can imagine, they are almost filled
most of the time.
While Denzel Washington was visiting BAMC, they gave
him a tour of one of the Fisher Houses. He asked how
much one of them would cost to build. He took his check
book out and wrote a check for the full amount right there
on the spot. The soldiers overseas were amazed to hear
this story and want to get the word out to the American
public, because it warmed their hearts to hear it.
The question is - why do:
Brad Pitt
Madonna,
Tom Cruise SEAN PENN and
other Hollywood fluff
make front page news with their ridiculous
antics and Denzel Washington's Patriotism
doesn't even make page 3 in the Metro section of
any newspaper except the Local newspaper in San
Antonio?
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I learned to use Snopes more often when I would send emails to one of my friends that is a technical writer and she uses Snopes daily on her writings.
Most of the emails that we get daily are not true or are stretched truths..
But the reasons that other celebs don't do this stuff....IT ISN'T BAD NEWS TO MAKE SOMEONE LOOK BAD SO WHY REPORT IT.
If it were a smear campaign...the media would be all over it.
The old newspaper gag is "If it doesn't bleed, it doesn't lead." There's a great old movie that was made twice before WWII based on a play called "The Front Page" by Ben Hecht. The first version was called "The Front Page." The second was called "His Girl Friday." Both are an entertaining look at the question. Cary Grant played the idealistic reporter in the first one and the cynical editor in the second one. Rosalind Russell played the reporter in the second one. The reporter character's name was Hildy Johnson so it worked in both.
People don't get the same visceral jolt from an awww story that they get from murders, fires, traffic accidents, and natural disasters. It's our fault, not the media's.