The game’s over, and our team won.
It’s time to turn off the TV and remember it could have gone either way but that our guys came back and snagged a victory. When’s the next game, anyway? We’re not talking about the last Gators basketball game.
This is the American mentality toward the transition of power during and after the revolution in Egypt.
The structure our media follow made the revolution both possible (How many stories did we hear about Twitter in Egypt?) and too slow for our tastes.
Our news anchors seemed to tire of the events far before the 18 days of protesting ended; they spared no time asking if the neighboring countries were due for revolution themselves.
We know our collective attention span is short, but a complete overhaul of a government central to a key political region of the world should command our attention for more than a few minutes.
Beyond that, until journalists started disappearing and our beloved Anderson Cooper got roughed up, we usually received information with a tone of spectacle.
Now that the interesting photo opportunities are gone and cars aren’t burning through the night in Tahrir Square, we’ll see less about the country on its way to a more democratic future and more about other countries in the Middle East gearing up for marches and protests.
Why cover the civil results of revolution when you can go elsewhere and find its chaotic roots?
