Extra! Extra! Read nothing about it! (Rumsfeld swears off information)

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http://www.latimes.com/news/custom/showcase/la-oe-powers14may14.story

It was a joke. Or was it? After all, this is not exactly an administration of news junkies. The president himself admitted last year he "rarely" reads news stories, relying instead on the more "objective sources" on his staff to tell him what's happening in the world. (Truth be told, White House staffers often outshine real journalists. That story they did about the African uranium was unforgettable, like a great novel.)

Here's another reason I thought it might be a joke. Just a few weeks ago, Rumsfeld told a meeting of the American Society of Newspaper Editors that America's leaders must be "challenged, internally through the complex constitutional system of checks and balances, and externally by a free and energetic press." He also said our political system "needs information to be self-correcting."

But that was before all this horrible news starting breaking, and reading the paper became so, well, unpleasant. The first lady said this week she "can't bear" to look at the torture photos in the papers.

that he not only stopped reading newspapers but he is currently reading a book about the Civil War.

My only thought was - he's prepping for what they have planned at home and abroad.

They are planning on changing everything we know anyway.
Why read about today's reality when you plan on altering it tomorrow?