Doom

So, the male host of the radio program said, quickly. What can be done to reverse these fortunes?

Ghost didn't answer. Not at first. Nothing, he finally said. There's nothing that can be done because the news media will never admit to wrongdoing and its own inherent failures and shortcomings.

Then he was gone. Like the ghost he seemingly was.

A silence fell over the airwaves. Then the female host recovered and announced they would be going to a commercial.

I don't believe very many people, relatively-speaking, listen to this particular radio station. But enough did, it seems, because in the days since 'Ghost' put forth his opinions on the matter of the news media and the fate apparently waiting it letter after letter has appeared in local newspapers, and comments after comments have appeared on blogs about the regional news media, all having to do with 'Ghost' and what he said. The echoes are impressive, I believe, because they are going to reveal and prove a certain truth: A given audience doesn't want fancy or big or impressive. A given audience, nowadays, wants what I call meat-and-potato fare: A story, a good story, and nothing more.

Which may go to explain why it was someone, somewhere decided making a movie based on a video game called "Doom" was a good idea, and why it is this particular movie will prove financially successful at the box office.

That "Doom" is by no means a great or even good story is incidential. That "Doom" has one good shot, and that being in the beginning of the movie is almost incidential. What is important here is that it tells a story, and that is what will bring people to see it, perhaps more than once.

At the core of the story is a group of Marines named the Rapid Response Tactical Squad. I don't know what specifically that means, but I do know the acronym resulting sounds like someone breaking wind on a church pew. That may be of importance somewhere along the way. It may not. I leave you to decide.

The year we encounter this group is 2046. We encounter them in the middle of an American desert. Why an American desert? It is a valid question: A portal to an ancient city on Mars has been discovered therein, and, of course, there is an obligation to see a) if it actually works, and b)

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