I just realized that that title would imply something about Butterstick. But it does not. Though some people think that if all tv signals were jammed and replaced with the pandacam 24/7, there would be no wars.
What a day for the media! Insanity, out of control. The miner story clusterfuck is tragic. How could that happen? I heard Geraldo(!) today underplay the media's fault in misreporting the story, because every paper had it wrong. But that proves nothing. Even though the NYTimes didn't have the "12 live" story, presumably because they went to print earlier than the others, I know enough about the newspaper industry to wager that all the papers that printed the wrong headline this morning were piggybacking off of one main publication's reporting. Either the AP or Reuters or the Tribune was the one major publication and all the others went with that because they too had to go to print and it all looked copasetic. It is troubling that the media is showing itself to be what it has become in this age of instant information. I wonder if this would have happened fifteen years ago. Or ten years ago.
Then Ariel Sharon has a massive stroke, one that will leave him incapacitated if at all alive. The media cannot keep up. This is a tremendous blow to the minor progress that had finally started in the Arab-Israeli conflict. Something tells me that everything is back at square one with the assumed acting PM Olmert. A few egg beaters could've saved Ariel's life. Ok, I don't know what causes a stroke, but he was really overweight and I heard on some news show after his last stroke that his weight had something to do with it.
Add to this the Jack Abramoff nightmare. It's a salacious story for the media anytime someone promised to dime out Congresspeople for corruption and bribery. This is going to really affect Washington in every way, and it will not discriminate between Republicans and Democrats. This is huge.
Anderson Cooper probably wishes he was on tv more than two hours a day. Maybe he could trade with Wolf?
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