Commericals and Iraq
It's funny to watch Sunday morning news shows. The commercials are always for investment firms or business software...stuff that most people will never be in a position to buy. I like to compare this to commercials for daytime t.v., which are usually about get-rich quick schemes, makeup, and lose-weight-quick pills. Late night t.v. is cool too, because all kinds of friendly women give me their phone numbers.
I re-learned how to play Canasta last night. It's fun! I find that doing stuff is usually more enjoyable than watching stuff. I think I'm going to take some artsy classes this summer. Doing stuff rules. Apparently, it used to be more boring, since people seem to have been quite infatuated with watching stuff.
On good news in Iraq....this complaint is malarkey. If there were car bombs every other day in the United States, would people say, "the politically biased liberal media refuses to report the good news in the United States." The news NEVER reports good news...that's not what they do! In fact, in most cases, good news isn't news at all!
On the one hand, yes, this creates a distorted picture of the world everywhere (a problem that I'm fighting in my own therapy). But, it's B.S. to claim that this is more true for Iraq than anywhere else.
posted by Joe @ 10:30 AM
1 Comments:
I don’t think critics of Iraqi war reporting take issue with reporting say “25 died from car bombing”. It’s the “In a sign of ever-worsening violence 25 died in car bombing” editorializing without supporting arguments that pisses them off. Just think if every time some white person was victimized by a black person it was editorialized in the news as an “ever worsening black crime wave”. How a story is reported is as important as what is reported and that this is a problem with Iraq that cannot be so easily be dismissed.
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