At my job, there is a TV. Management prefers that that TV be tuned into a "news" channel. I'd prefer to go all Keith Moon and toss that sucker out the window. There are 3 major 24 hours "news" networks, yet none of them report any goddamned news. There's a whole world out there. There's so much news you should never see the same story twice, much less every single hour.
Today, I logged what MSNBC covered from 12:00 to 12:45 (at 12:45 the TV was switched to a local channel to cover a local breaking story). Here, sadly, is what was covered:
1. Crowd gathers to watch Ocean 13 stars do that hand imprint thing.
2. Bush tries to soothe Putin's feelings.
3. Hail & lightning in Kansas or somewhere.
4. Scooter Libby gets sentenced.
5. Public beaches in Malibu are hard to get to.
6. Fighers at Boston Pops have charges dropped or something.
7. Immigration bill type stuff.
8. Do parents push their kids too far?
9. Missing girl in kansas
10. Senator dies.
11. Shootout in Shingle Springs(click- channel changes).
Of these, numbers 2, 4, 7, and 10 are legitimate national news stories. The rest are local stories. What's missing from this list? Hint: starts with an I, ends with a RAQ?
No news from Iraq? Nothing? We're not at war? No deaths, nothing, it doesn't exist. Osama? Fingers in your ears, la-la-la-la-la. Until I'm proven otherwise, my assumption is that the news networks are deliberately not covering Iraq. And it's not that today is the exception or anything; it's like this all day, every day, on all three channels, until the "opinion" shows start. And that's a whole other abomination. Ah, liberal bias. If you're not going to cover the news, do not call yourself a news channel, dickheads.
When I am at the gym, they play the Fox News Channel. They do the local stories too, but make sure t remind us on the ticker that that terror alert is elevated....
ReplyDelete