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SimplyMichael -> The so called News (9/26/2007 10:16:04 AM)
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If only we did have a left wing media! Instead we have "tepid news" all the news that guaranteed to not upset the right...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/9/26/111344/859
Snapshot: The Death of American News [image]http://www.dailykos.com/images/add_hl2.gif[/image]
by Kagro X
Wed Sep 26, 2007 at 09:05:35 AM PDT
After a long and painful illness, American news has finally succumbed to disease.
Things have been going downhill for years, and there's plenty of blame to go around, to be sure. But here's a snapshot.
- Katie Couric goes to Baghdad. Asks "typical family" what it's like "to live in fear." (Answer: frightening).
- MoveOn shows people just what Katie did in Baghdad:
- Baghdad trip turns out to be not just a snoozefest, but also ratings poison:
The "CBS Evening News" tied a record low with just under 5.5 million viewers last week, Nielsen Media Research said Tuesday. Last week and Memorial Day week are the two least-watched CBS evening newscasts since at least 1987, and probably far earlier.
- People who expected CBS to actually report something wrote in to complain, and CBS employees wrote back, saying the complainers probably read blogs, and everyone knows blogs suck.
- Couric's publicist threatens to sue WebProNews.com for reporting on the nasty e-mail exchanges.
- And then, after all this, Couric tells a National Press Club audience:
- The rationale for the war was b.s.
- The war was a mistake
- Invading Iraq was ridiculous since the terrorists were in Afghanistan and Pakistan
- Iraq had no connection with Al Qaeda
- Bush botched the war
- Disbanding the Iraqi military was a disaster and...
- She would "feel totally comfortable saying any of that at some point, if required, on television."
"If required."
What the @#*%& does that mean? If required?
You mean, like, if it came up on your TelePrompTer? Is that when it's "required?"
Oh, my sweet Lord.
And she's not even done!
The former "Today" show anchor traced her discomfort with the administration’s march to war back to the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.
"The whole culture of wearing flags on our lapel and saying ‘we’ when referring to the United States and, even the ‘shock and awe’ of the initial stages, it was just too jubilant and just a little uncomfortable. And I remember feeling, when I was anchoring the ‘Today’ show, this inevitable march towards war and kind of feeling like, ‘Will anybody put the brakes on this?’ And is this really being properly challenged by the right people? And I think, at the time, anyone who questioned the administration was considered unpatriotic and it was a very difficult position to be in."
Just who does Katie Couric think was going to swoop down from the skies and save her? Just who did she think were "the right people" to challenge the march to war?
And this is something she shares with those "in the Club," but not the rest of America?
Oh my God! We're so dead!
Help! Help! Someone please help us! We're boiling alive and no one knows if it's "required" to say so on the TeeVee News!
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