Motorcycle Explorer December 2014 Issue 3 | Page 203

I
more interaction riding alone than I do now
riding with certain individuals.
Those of us on the road have an ability to
provide a very useful service, I think most of us
’m of an age where I can recall travel
are aware that what we are fed on the news is
without internet, long diversions were made to
one-sided, inaccurate, agenda driven, mind
a poste restante to collect 6 week old news.
control (am I allowed to say that?) Regardless
That progressed to email access every
of the subject matter all news has a shelf life,
fortnight and how it seems every time the
it gets old and is replaced with new stories,
helmet is removed the sights are not seen until
that why it’s called ‘the news’ not ‘the
after the phone has been checked. I've ridden
continued responsible and informed account
with small groups, assuming, at a cafe stop that
of the rebuilding and recovery from a
there would be personal interaction based on
devastating circumstance’, news like social
our individual helmet thoughts and visor
media is audience driven, bums on seats, likes,
views. Instead there is silence as everyone
popularity.
posts and reads on their phones, the first
The reporters leave after the first dramatic
connection they’ve had in 2 hours. I've had