Television
Aug 07, 2013
MIKE SAYS ABOUT NPR CORRESPONDENT SCOTT SIMON SHARING HIS MOTHER’S LAST DAYS VIA TWITTER: “WHAT I THINK IS MOST INTERESTING ABOUT IT, WHATEVER DECISIONS WE MAKE—WHAT TO TWEET ABOUT, OR WRITE ABOUT, OR… SPEAK ABOUT—IS ONE UNIVERSAL APPLICATION I THINK THAT IS ALMOST ETERNAL. SCOTT’S TWEETS ABOUT HIS MOTHER GOT TO IT—PEOPLE, OTHER PEOPLE, WHETHER THEY ARE READERS, VIEWERS OR LISTENERS, THEY WANT TO BE TOUCHED. WE LIVE IN SUCH A REMOTE WORLD TODAY [AND] WE’RE SO HARD TO ACCESS EMOTIONALLY. WE DON’T KNOW OUR NEIGHBORS; WE MOVE MULTIPLE TIMES, WE HAVE MULTIPLE JOBS. PEOPLE WANT TO BE TOUCHED. THEY WANT TO BE LIKE ‘OH YEAH, THAT’S WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE HUMAN’—TO LOSE YOUR MOM, TO LIVE A LIFE, TO WITNESS A LIFE GOING THROUGH YOUR FINGERS. I THINK THAT’S THE UNIVERSAL APPLICATION THAT TOUCHED SO MANY PEOPLE IN [SCOTT’S] TWEETS.” ON MORNING JOE ON MSNBC.

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