People I Can Do Without #9
The cable "news" media needs to do their job and report the news... ALL of the news!
Yesterday, for what seemed to be 24 hrs. straight we saw the same story about the death of al-Zarqawi. Now, is this a big story? Of course! However did it need 24 hrs to cover? Is there nothing else going on in the world, or better yet, here at home that could have used even 10 minutes of coverage yesterday?
These networks pick one story and drill it for days and days and sometimes, as in the case of some blonde girl in Aruba, an entire fucking year!
In a world of multi-tasking CNN, MSNBC and FOX News are sad examples of nothing more than tunnel vision.
Yesterday while al-Zarqawi was dead, ALL day, these stories popped into my head...
1. The environment - You know that thing called climate and global warming. A much bigger long term risk to us as a species than terrorism could ever hope to be!
2. The price of fucking gas! - The price gauging that the major oil companies are still getting away with is out of control.
3. The war in Iraq - I sat and watched as people used the phrase "turning the corner" yesterday and wanted to throw the fuck up! We still have no real plan and still do not have enough troops on the ground over there.... Over 2,500 dead American soldiers and countless more seriously wounded and there STILL is no end in sight. Now you want us to believe we've "turned the corner" because of one dead, radical mother fucker! I don't think so... Still a long road to travel.
4. The continuing discrimination of homosexuals - I think discrimination of any kind deserves a light shined on it... Why hatred towards an entire group of people based on THE WAY THEY WERE BORN is so readily excepted by so many morons in this country is, at the least, extremely troubling.
5. The continuing genocide in Africa - Never has a story of such weight received such little attention. It blows my mind that it still doesn't make the news EVERY night.
6. That dead chick in Aruba - I actually wondered yesterday... "Is she still dead? Christ, I haven't heard anything all day!"
7. The National Debt - Man, my unborn kid's are gonna STILL be pissed when they are 40!
8. Scientists have developed and had approved a vaccine for cervical cancer - Sort of a big break through for woman all over the world!
9. The stock market continues to slide downward - So much for that big bounce in the economy.
10. The World Cup - Yes, we don't care about soccer in this country but ANYTHING that unites the entire world can't be all that bad! Sports can be a wonderful thing sometimes. Also, the out right racism that still invades soccer is a worthwhile topic for discussion to see how far we have come and how far we still need to go as the human race.
Now, these are just ten topics off the top of my head. All were worth discussing yesterday while I watched these networks run the same footage of a bomb going off all day!
Get your shit together and start reporting ALL the news, ALL of the time. Don't simply pick and choose what you will be ramming down our American throats every day. Don't tell us what's important... Give us ALL of the information and let us decide!
After all, that's your fucking job!
Yesterday, for what seemed to be 24 hrs. straight we saw the same story about the death of al-Zarqawi. Now, is this a big story? Of course! However did it need 24 hrs to cover? Is there nothing else going on in the world, or better yet, here at home that could have used even 10 minutes of coverage yesterday?
These networks pick one story and drill it for days and days and sometimes, as in the case of some blonde girl in Aruba, an entire fucking year!
In a world of multi-tasking CNN, MSNBC and FOX News are sad examples of nothing more than tunnel vision.
Yesterday while al-Zarqawi was dead, ALL day, these stories popped into my head...
1. The environment - You know that thing called climate and global warming. A much bigger long term risk to us as a species than terrorism could ever hope to be!
2. The price of fucking gas! - The price gauging that the major oil companies are still getting away with is out of control.
3. The war in Iraq - I sat and watched as people used the phrase "turning the corner" yesterday and wanted to throw the fuck up! We still have no real plan and still do not have enough troops on the ground over there.... Over 2,500 dead American soldiers and countless more seriously wounded and there STILL is no end in sight. Now you want us to believe we've "turned the corner" because of one dead, radical mother fucker! I don't think so... Still a long road to travel.
4. The continuing discrimination of homosexuals - I think discrimination of any kind deserves a light shined on it... Why hatred towards an entire group of people based on THE WAY THEY WERE BORN is so readily excepted by so many morons in this country is, at the least, extremely troubling.
5. The continuing genocide in Africa - Never has a story of such weight received such little attention. It blows my mind that it still doesn't make the news EVERY night.
6. That dead chick in Aruba - I actually wondered yesterday... "Is she still dead? Christ, I haven't heard anything all day!"
7. The National Debt - Man, my unborn kid's are gonna STILL be pissed when they are 40!
8. Scientists have developed and had approved a vaccine for cervical cancer - Sort of a big break through for woman all over the world!
9. The stock market continues to slide downward - So much for that big bounce in the economy.
10. The World Cup - Yes, we don't care about soccer in this country but ANYTHING that unites the entire world can't be all that bad! Sports can be a wonderful thing sometimes. Also, the out right racism that still invades soccer is a worthwhile topic for discussion to see how far we have come and how far we still need to go as the human race.
Now, these are just ten topics off the top of my head. All were worth discussing yesterday while I watched these networks run the same footage of a bomb going off all day!
Get your shit together and start reporting ALL the news, ALL of the time. Don't simply pick and choose what you will be ramming down our American throats every day. Don't tell us what's important... Give us ALL of the information and let us decide!
After all, that's your fucking job!
posted by Mr. A at 5:12 PM
5 Comments:
Other topics that were overdone by the media: Chandra Levy (remember her?)9/11, that stupid Saddam statue they showed being pulled down, again, and again....and....again, Princess Di's death.
On the other hand, I was listening to Virgin radio on Friday at work and the only thing they talked about was the World Cup.
8. Scientists have developed and had approved a vaccine for cervical cancer - Sort of a big break through for woman all over the world!
I must have missed something? Is this true?
as a big cable news fan, i agree with you and most of your list. what someone ought to have the balls to do is to begin a news network that would feature these types of stories (like ted turner did with wanting to skew everything to the left an murdoch did to the right). we need the middle of the road news network.
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Here's a link
http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/06/08/cervical.vaccine/index.html
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