Are Americans idiots, or just the media?
Submitted by Mojo Mom on Wed, 09/05/2007 - 11:05am.
On CNN.com this morning, the story "Germany: Massive Terror Attacks Foiled" briefly held the main headline spot. Much to my dismay, the breaking news real estate was quickly taken over by "'She-Male' leads prisoners in dance."
This is FARK at its worst! Infotainment pushing out a serious news story. Guess the lede "The inmates are led by an alleged meth dealer and transsexual" was just too juicy for CNN editors to pass up. (Never mind that this story has already been making the news rounds for several weeks now.)
No wonder Amercians didn't see 9/11 coming. We were too busy reading celebrity news and infotainment. "Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain...."
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Hi Mojo, and welcome.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain is right. Perhaps the best thing the Bush administration has done for the U.S. is wake SOME of us up to what is happening around the world in our names.
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Sadly
this is exactly what happened, not just among us the average joes and joannas, but across the entire Executive branch.
I saw at kos a quote from Bill Maher about the lead paint on toys from China ... to paraphrase ...
only in America could we being killed by the very ingredient that makes the colors on shiney objects brighter.
Aww...
I kind of liked the prisoner story because a very close friend of mine just got back from the Peace Corps in Cebu, where the prison is. And it is about a foreign country, something our media tends to ignore (just try to find news about the country where I was in the Peace Corps so long ago!).
-- ge
P.S. (This is a joke.)
Besta é tu se você não viver nesse mundo
http://george.entenman.name
Where did you do your time?
It is interesting that the only story they thought weighty enough to cover was of a shemale dancer. How about the thousands of children kidnapped for slavery this year? Hundreds of thousands perhaps. No?
Maybe if they danced.
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. - Carlos Ruiz Zafon