You people suck at this news thing
Friday March 28, 2003 at 8:58 pm
I've grown so tired of all the negative, dare I say hateful, anti-American propaganda our own news organizations are putting out. It's becoming more difficult to find the truth as you are forced to wallow through all the junk that's being spewed forth. Armchair generals think they know what's going on and can make better decisions than those on the ground and with the real intelligence in hand. The anti-America liberal leanings of most are bubbling to the surface, smelling of decay and rotting flesh. Overall, I think the true colors of most news organizations are finally showing.
ABCNews has finally pushed my last button, so I will no longer watch or read their out-of-touch, liberal, spiteful, negative crap. Each and every day their reporting becomes more hateful. They focus on the negatives, offer conjecture like it's the truth, report from Saddam Hussein's point of view, and refrain from offering any positive news whatsoever. It's all in how you look at things, and I think everyone at ABCNews needs antidepressants. I'll take a root canal instead of that junk, thanks.
Salon.com had some miserable, weak-minded nobody (Scott Rosenberg) writing about how he knew before the first bomb dropped that the war plan "showed scary signs of overconfidence." As nothing more than a wanna-be, I'm certain he was involved in all of those classified discussions — so his frame of reference can't be wrong. Whatever.
Wired.com ran an article entitled Iraqi Dead Counted, Not Forgotten in which they legitimize a web site that is estimating the number of Iraqi civilian casualties by counting all of the reports of civilian casualties. Why don't they just call Saddam Hussein and ask him how many we've killed? That must undoubtedly be easier than scanning through all of the news reports in order to add all of the guesses and conjecture together to come up with an estimate. This one's not even laughable.
The BBC reported "50 civilians die" under a headline of 'Many dead' in Baghdad blast — right on the front page. Their information is, of course, based on the word of Iraqi officials. Am I the only one who noticed these were the same folks shooting their own civilians? Did the BBC not notice when SCUD missiles began flying toward Kuwait — missiles Iraqi officials had denied having for years? Pitiful, really, and surprising for the BBC. I've lost much respect for those folks recently, as I've seen a drastic increase in slanted reporting from them.
CBS News was still reporting that a missile strike in Kuwait City was likely the result of an errant American missile, despite confirmation hours earlier that it was indeed an Iraqi-made missile based on the Chinese "Silkworm" technology. Similar to cruise missiles while being notoriously less accurate, this type of missile comes in low so as to avoid radar, hence the lack of Patriot missile engagement and air raid sirens in the city. I would have hoped that CBS would keep up with current events and correct their obvious false reporting and anti-American content to reflect the truth of the situation, but that wouldn't accurately reflect the true nature of the CBS pro-Saddam propaganda machine.
I find that many news organizations have no problem reporting things that are less reliable than conjecture. This appears to be based on the hope that they will have been the first to report it. Hello, Florida… Anyone remember the election of 2000?
Needless to say, I'm sanitizing my news more and more lately. I've already given up on ABCNews altogether, as I've had it with their pitiful attempts to break the American spirit from within. I dropped CNN long ago once I realized CNN really stands for Clinton News Network. Spin doesn't begin to describe that organization — tornadic whirlwind would be more appropriate.
I just wish these folks would piss off and die or get their shit together and be real journalists. They don't have to be patriotic (that's not entirely objective), but they definitely shouldn't be anti-America. Screw 'em, I say.
jason
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