Then, halfway through 'Just Like a Woman,' it started to get magical, and when he sang 'It's All Right, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)' it all fell into place.
For Kadlubek, achieving his goals of fair pay for artists, civility between underground arts and the city, and creating a model for how a major corporation can move into a neighborhood and do some good or at the very least, not bleed it dry all center around a single message: Art is valuable.
(While I'm casting aspersions, let me also admit; the media is also incentivized to maximize fears, threats, and anxiety. "If it bleeds, it leads" and all that. This is probably almost as big a problem).
As much as Tuesday's win might have stopped the bleeding it didn't solve all of Boston's problems, the worst of which has been starting pitching.
If people are more likely to spread news that's novel (which is "almost definitional," Roy said) and also news that's negative (the "if it bleeds, it leads" phenomenon), then all that remains to be seen is whether false news is more novel and more negative than true news.
This mindset of "if it bleeds, it leads" is hurting all of us.
Hard work is giving your tasks the attention they deserve at the time they deserve, not letting it bleed into all hours of your day!
If there is a bleeding heart behind it all -- and I think deep down that there is -- it is largely camouflaged.
"It only costs a bit more to give a chicken a natural life and a reasonably pleasant death," he told the champagne-sipping audience before he stunned the chicken, cut an artery inside its throat, and let it bleed to death, all in accordance with British standards for humane slaughter.
We all bleed red, we all grieve the loss of innocent human beings wherever it takes place.
