Too Much Non-News!!
America is overwhelmed, drowning in non-news. There are news programs, news magazines, news websites, news analysis, news, news, news. The problem is that most of what is reported is not news. It is blatant propaganda, publicity and/or fluff. For instance, just tonight, January 31, 2007, We were treated to an in depth analysis of Sen. Joe Biden calling Sen. Osama Obama "clean". There was great debate among "news" analyists about whether "clean" was a "racial slur." On the same broadcast we heard about some group of "select" scientists who are putting out an "earth shaking" report on global warming. The "scientists" say that "Global Warming" could last one-thousand years, and, of course, it's all our fault. We heard a breathless reporter tell us about Tyra Banks, a model or something I think, crying because some mean people called her "fat." We heard that Jennifer Anniston denies having had a nose and boob job. We heard all about Miss America getting out of rehab, and we heard for the umpteenth time about Roise O'Donnel and Donald Trump's "feud."
None of this was the least bit important or interesting to me. None of it affected my life at all. All of it was tripe of the stupidest and most elementary kind. We are inundated daily with such non-news hogwash as the above while the real news goes under reported or unreported. For instance, it seems that lovable Democrat leader Senator Harry Reid was recently involved in a land deal scandal that netted him a tidy profit at the expense of those who voted for him. (1)
Have you heard a word about this on network news? I bet you haven't. And, you probably will not because this a real news story. It is important for us to know that an elected representative in Washington is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. While Sen. Reid enjoys his illicit gains from a frauduluent land deal we will hear very little or nothing about this scandal. In the meantime we can rest assured that we will know all about some ditsy Hollywood starlet's illegitimate baby and her "babydaddy".
(1) The Associated Press reported that (Sen.) Reid gained a windfall from that sale of land in 2004 even though he had not personally owned the property for the previous three years. Reid also did not divulge the 2001 transfer of the land to a company he co-owned with a friend, a transaction that would normally call for a mention in Senate financial disclosure documents, the AP said.
By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 12, 2006; Page A03
America is overwhelmed, drowning in non-news. There are news programs, news magazines, news websites, news analysis, news, news, news. The problem is that most of what is reported is not news. It is blatant propaganda, publicity and/or fluff. For instance, just tonight, January 31, 2007, We were treated to an in depth analysis of Sen. Joe Biden calling Sen. Osama Obama "clean". There was great debate among "news" analyists about whether "clean" was a "racial slur." On the same broadcast we heard about some group of "select" scientists who are putting out an "earth shaking" report on global warming. The "scientists" say that "Global Warming" could last one-thousand years, and, of course, it's all our fault. We heard a breathless reporter tell us about Tyra Banks, a model or something I think, crying because some mean people called her "fat." We heard that Jennifer Anniston denies having had a nose and boob job. We heard all about Miss America getting out of rehab, and we heard for the umpteenth time about Roise O'Donnel and Donald Trump's "feud."
None of this was the least bit important or interesting to me. None of it affected my life at all. All of it was tripe of the stupidest and most elementary kind. We are inundated daily with such non-news hogwash as the above while the real news goes under reported or unreported. For instance, it seems that lovable Democrat leader Senator Harry Reid was recently involved in a land deal scandal that netted him a tidy profit at the expense of those who voted for him. (1)
Have you heard a word about this on network news? I bet you haven't. And, you probably will not because this a real news story. It is important for us to know that an elected representative in Washington is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. While Sen. Reid enjoys his illicit gains from a frauduluent land deal we will hear very little or nothing about this scandal. In the meantime we can rest assured that we will know all about some ditsy Hollywood starlet's illegitimate baby and her "babydaddy".
(1) The Associated Press reported that (Sen.) Reid gained a windfall from that sale of land in 2004 even though he had not personally owned the property for the previous three years. Reid also did not divulge the 2001 transfer of the land to a company he co-owned with a friend, a transaction that would normally call for a mention in Senate financial disclosure documents, the AP said.
By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, October 12, 2006; Page A03
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