![]() According to news reports, “by Friday night, more than 2,000 flights in and out of Chicago had been canceled. There would been fire trucks and an ambulance, and later a criminal trial if the man survived, and an inquest if he did not.īut last week when 36-year old contract employee Brian Howard allegedly attempted to set fire at the facility servicing Chicago’s Midway and O’Hare airports, air travel in the United States all but ground to a halt. Only a generation ago, or at most two generations ago, a part-time employee’s clumsy attempt to set fire to his work station, then try to cut his throat, would have resulted in excitement, upset, and maybe sadness in the immediate neighbourhood. Carried away by our capabilities, we became fatally vulnerable to them. Bosch warned that we’d outsmart ourselves and we did. “Let me write the headlines,” the newspaper proprietor William Randolph Hearst said, “and I do nor care who writes the story.” Writers may not care much who reads the paper they don’t get to write, although they should. Writers rarely write headlines, for instance therefore writers rarely write what people read. It’s just that people who scribble for a living inhabit a world of their own. Article contentĭear me, not snobbery, anything but snobbery, perish the thought. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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