The MSM suck, and here is why...
Here is an article that was actually published on the washington post's website. It does a pretty good job of knocking out the failures. I will attempt to go a bit farther.
If we look at the last few weeks, the press has covered in different ways many stories but several of the them, the main ones, leave me a little flabberghasted. The cartoon one is the easiest so lets knock on that some more. The reasons were stated very well up front. The MSM cowered when confronted with showing images that caused the rioting in dozens of countries and even deaths. Shit, even the storming the embassies and the withdrawing of several diplomats. This is pretty big news, so doesn't it makes sense to show the reason this is happening? I mean thats what all the protests are supposedly about. And if you don't believe its really about the cartoons, thats great, but thats what is on the placcards and signs. So now we have a mommy media that is going to decide not only what is important but what we are allowed to see. Oh but of course, we area allowed to see images of Mary covered in shit, Sharon as a nazi etc. Whats the purpose of the news again, keep me informed? Great job, nothing like keeping me informed by telling me i cannot see things and make up my own mind.
Next wonderful story we have is the Cheney incident. How is this so big a story that it dominates news coverage for days. The man was shot by the vice president on a private hunting trip, and was in a stable condition the whole time. And in addition, it was even put forth by the man who was shot that he was at least partly if not mostly at fault. And the biggest story wasn't the shooting even, it was that nobody informed the press until 18 hours later. I mean wow, they followed the law by informing the local hunting regulation board and the owner of the ranch put it out 18 hours later, after Mr. Whittington was in the hospital and doing well. Apperently thats not fast enough for some reason I still don't understand. God forbid, the press needs to find out about stuff themselves. Also, lets also point out that the media couldn't get all the facts or have some of them right. We heard all kinds of wonderful statements like "shot him with BBs" (not even close since it was 6 shot, a BB is much closer to 0 or 1 shot). We heard that for a while the shooting was close range (30 yards is not close range for a shotgun). We also heard that it was a powerful shotgun (it was a 28 gauge, a very small shotgun with little power). We heard about the number one rule of hunting, to be sure of what you are shooting (good point but much less applicable in a quail hunt as the coveies are gone in about 1-2 seconds so maintaining position is paramount, this comes from my shooting instructor that hunts quail). All types of wonderful assertations but alot of them are made up or just wrong, all in a story that really has no real significance.
And then we have the wonderful idea of the new Abu Gharib photos. Even most of the people in Iraq are sick of this as it was A) 2 years ago roughly B) Already been fully investigated C) Sentences and punishments were already handed out. Yet this was a leading story, about stuff that happened 2 years ago. Now really "News" as much as "Inflaming hatred Olds." Oh but lets not forget, these images were widely shown and offending Muslims and inciting hatred be damned. Of course it makes the US look bad so we will keep rolling with it. Ridiculous. Totally freaking ridiculous.
I know its like beating a dead horse to show that the media is worthless at this point, but still, its crazy lately even more than usual.
If we look at the last few weeks, the press has covered in different ways many stories but several of the them, the main ones, leave me a little flabberghasted. The cartoon one is the easiest so lets knock on that some more. The reasons were stated very well up front. The MSM cowered when confronted with showing images that caused the rioting in dozens of countries and even deaths. Shit, even the storming the embassies and the withdrawing of several diplomats. This is pretty big news, so doesn't it makes sense to show the reason this is happening? I mean thats what all the protests are supposedly about. And if you don't believe its really about the cartoons, thats great, but thats what is on the placcards and signs. So now we have a mommy media that is going to decide not only what is important but what we are allowed to see. Oh but of course, we area allowed to see images of Mary covered in shit, Sharon as a nazi etc. Whats the purpose of the news again, keep me informed? Great job, nothing like keeping me informed by telling me i cannot see things and make up my own mind.
Next wonderful story we have is the Cheney incident. How is this so big a story that it dominates news coverage for days. The man was shot by the vice president on a private hunting trip, and was in a stable condition the whole time. And in addition, it was even put forth by the man who was shot that he was at least partly if not mostly at fault. And the biggest story wasn't the shooting even, it was that nobody informed the press until 18 hours later. I mean wow, they followed the law by informing the local hunting regulation board and the owner of the ranch put it out 18 hours later, after Mr. Whittington was in the hospital and doing well. Apperently thats not fast enough for some reason I still don't understand. God forbid, the press needs to find out about stuff themselves. Also, lets also point out that the media couldn't get all the facts or have some of them right. We heard all kinds of wonderful statements like "shot him with BBs" (not even close since it was 6 shot, a BB is much closer to 0 or 1 shot). We heard that for a while the shooting was close range (30 yards is not close range for a shotgun). We also heard that it was a powerful shotgun (it was a 28 gauge, a very small shotgun with little power). We heard about the number one rule of hunting, to be sure of what you are shooting (good point but much less applicable in a quail hunt as the coveies are gone in about 1-2 seconds so maintaining position is paramount, this comes from my shooting instructor that hunts quail). All types of wonderful assertations but alot of them are made up or just wrong, all in a story that really has no real significance.
And then we have the wonderful idea of the new Abu Gharib photos. Even most of the people in Iraq are sick of this as it was A) 2 years ago roughly B) Already been fully investigated C) Sentences and punishments were already handed out. Yet this was a leading story, about stuff that happened 2 years ago. Now really "News" as much as "Inflaming hatred Olds." Oh but lets not forget, these images were widely shown and offending Muslims and inciting hatred be damned. Of course it makes the US look bad so we will keep rolling with it. Ridiculous. Totally freaking ridiculous.
I know its like beating a dead horse to show that the media is worthless at this point, but still, its crazy lately even more than usual.
posted by Maddawg at 2/23/2006 08:20:00 AM
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