News 24/7?

I think we should do away with news 24/7. There just doesn't seem to be enough news to go around. Either they just repeat the same news over and over all day long, or they focus on trivia. I suppose that theoretically there ought to be plenty of news. I mean, after all, there's a whole world out there. But here in the U.S. we don't really get much news from around the world. If we do it's generally just an announcement like: Bush Travels to the Middle East, or Bush Meets With Olmert, or some such thing that is not exactly real news. Our MSM only gives sound bites, never any in-depth analysis of anything. They do repeat anything the White House tells them to but, again, that is hardly news.

We get things like Hillary's cleavage or her "cackle," or her pants suits, or hairdo, and Edward's $400 haircut, and now Obama's barber shop, and exciting things like that (that seems to be designed to keep us from getting any real news, like what's really happening in Iraq, or Iran, or wherever). And it steers clear of any of the forty or more scandals of the Bush/Cheney administration. The MSM just bury everything they don't want us to hear, like Wexler's impeachment attempt or just about anything Kucinich says, and so on. Now the latest flap over Bill Clinton's comment that Obama's claims about his opposition to the "war" was simply a fairy tale. This has been converted by the media into Bill Clinton's claim that Obama's pursuit of the Presidency is just a fairy tale. Anyone who has seen the clip of what he actually said knows perfectly well what he said and what he meant. But by keeping the lie alive they keep us from hearing anything about Bush's ridiculous visit to the Middle East and its inevitable failure. Bush's claim that the Palestinian/Israel problem will be solved by the end of his Presidency is just one more example of how out of touch with reality he continues to be.

I guess if the 24/7 news wanted to give us real 24/7 news they would have to spend some money on real reporters and travel, rather than on nice-looking young ladies to read us pap off the teleprompter. I should think the tons of money they are getting from the pharmaceutical industry would pay for some real news, but not, of course, when all the money goes to the CEO's. Do you think all that advertising doesn't add to the cost of your drugs? The main purpose of those ads would seem to be to get us to buy drugs we don't even need. If everyone took their advice and "asked their Doctor," we wouldn't need the ads in the first place. Common sense and reality has long since departed our American culture of the absurd.

Well, it's off to Nevada and South Carolina. That'll keep us informed for days and will certainly keep us isolated from anything the MSM doesn't want us to hear.

LKBIQ:
"There has never been a war yet which, if the facts had been put calmly before the ordinary folk, could not have been prevented. The common man is the greatest protection against war."
Ernest Bevin