[smiley]

CNN's most read stories at this moment.

1) Tanzanian volcano erupts
2) Dog decapitations shock Michigan town
3) 'I did not have HIV,' Zuma tells rape trial
4) Julia Roberts' show has amazing week
5) Webcast singer snapped up by Sony

Our whole civilization could probably collapse while the world is fretting about Priscilla Presley's new hairdo.

This almost makes me want to join the doomer camp. In the face of such ignorance a die-off is fully justifiable.

[Falconoffury]

Am I the only one bothered by the newscasters who are smiling and making jokes mere minutes after telling stories where people are suffering and dying?

[rogerhb]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'A')m I the only one bothered by the newscasters who are smiling and making jokes mere minutes after telling stories where people are suffering and dying?

[UIUCstudent01]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'A')m I the only one bothered by the newscasters who are smiling and making jokes mere minutes after telling stories where people are suffering and dying?

[Specop_007]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('rogerhb', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'A')m I the only one bothered by the newscasters who are smiling and making jokes mere minutes after telling stories where people are suffering and dying?

[Dreamtwister]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'A')m I the only one bothered by the newscasters who are smiling and making jokes mere minutes after telling stories where people are suffering and dying?

[PenultimateManStanding]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', '
')You know the saying "If it bleeds, it leads"? Well, that minister's wife who killed her husband just bought Anderson Cooper a brand new SUV. Of course they are all smiling.

[worrier]

Something that bothered me more was a couple of years ago a particular TV channel in New Zealand ran a advertising promo after their news programme. It showed the latest bloody shooting/war/natural disaster lots of dead, said something like when such and such disaster happened we brought you the news first. They were boasting about it. I thought it was sick.

Also another channel was reporting on a murder case that had happened in the Marlborough Sounds, they fronted the reporting with a moody shots of water, and gave it a title "The Sounds Murders", like it was the latest Miss Marple who-dunnit. I thought that was sick too.

[Free]

Almost all of the media and journalist are sick f*ckers and exploiting parasites who, just like the religions, profiteer from human suffering like hyenas.

But why do they exist? Because "we" ask for their product. Once again, the enemy is us.

And it always has been like that, just read Karl Kraus (lived around WW1 and fiercely attacked hypocritical journalists throughout his whole live):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Kraus

http://www.theabsolute.net/minefield/kraus.html



"The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they believe they are as clever as he."

"How is the world ruled and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to journalists and then believe what they read."

"When someone behaves like a beast, he says: 'After all, one is only human.' But when he is treated like a beast, he says, 'After all, one is human.'"

"To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."

[Dreamtwister]

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[Free]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Dreamtwister', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Free', '"')To me all men are equal: there are jackasses everywhere, and I have the same contempt for them all."

[whatpeak]

Reminds me of the time when watching a local LA TV news broadcast after a major earthquake there. People were asked to call in and report what they saw. One guy calls in and says "Howard Stern, baba booie, Howard Stern, baba booie." Both of the reporters were speechless until they were told to go to the next caller.

[whatpeak]

Reminds me of the time when watching a local LA TV news broadcast after a major earthquake there. People were asked to call in and report what they saw. One guy calls in and says "Howard Stern, baba booie, Howard Stern, baba booie." Both of the reporters were speechless until they were told to go to the next caller.