I'm not a conspiracy nut, I'm not a conspiracy
nut, I'm not a conspiracy nut
Sitting home on Darvoset recovering from having
my knee fixed and watching the network morning "news" shows and I have to tell
you - they're amazing. You would think that nothing is going on. You you
wouldn't know 5 soldiers were killed in the last 24 hours that more than 80
Iraqi's were killed over the week-end. You wouldn't know that real issue of
electoral fraud in Ohio are beginning to bubble to the surface. You wouldn't
know some of the issues involved in the compromise on the intelligence bill or
their implications for our civil liberties. How can everyone ignore everything
that's going on in the world all at the same time. It's like their waiting for
Michael Jackson to play dress up with another little boy or for the next blow in
the Scott Peterson trial. Here's what they were broadcasting on our nations
airwaves:
1. Woman shot in driveway by hunter
(sad and scary but national
news?)
2. Cancerous Moles - What To Look For
(there's a place for this, but not at
the exclusion of hard news)
4. Seal Cam and Global Warming.
(Rehashing whether global warming is
real or not, they slap a camera on a seal to settle the question. Right up there
with Morning Edition's corn cam.)
5. Barbara Walters Ten Most Fascinating People
(Who gives a shit,
really)
6. Family Sells Ghost (and grandpa's cane) on eBay
for $65,000 (no
comment)
7. Man Kills Wife’s Boyfriend.
(I'm waiting for them to start covering
fires - oh wait they did that this morning too)
8. Gifts Under $50.
(Maybe after cutting 100,000 jobs in
November I should consider this a public service - even though they didn't
really talk about all the jobs we lost this morning)
9. Fat and the Holidays.
(They tackled this from several
angles...)
10. Gene Shalit goes cuckoo for calendars
(See my answer to No.
5)