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Edited on Wed May-16-07 07:51 AM by Atman
There is literally no television source for actual news anymore. I used to enjoy reading the paper over a cup of coffee in the morning, while CNN or even -- long ago and far away -- the Today show, filled me in on the world developments which occurred while I was asleep. Even Today used to do actual news segments. Now, the local Tribune Media Co-owned paper is half the size and costs 75 cents, and the front page story is invariably a light-weight human interest story about an old lady who rescues puppies, or a flag-waving celebration of some local kid fighting to protect our freedoms in Iraq. CNN has done the seemingly impossible and made me actually almost miss Solidad O'Brien, replacing her and her Ken-Doll twin with a pair of twits even more vacuous than their predecessors. With FOX News roots, no less. On top of it, they seem to have shortened the "news" rotation to about ten minutes. That is, they take their top non-stories (home video of kids running in a storm; a commuter melee at a subway station in Argentina) and repeat them over and over and over, every few minutes. These nuggets are interwove with the story about the MIA soldier whose family was told he was dead, but it turned out he wasn't, now he really might be. Of course, nothing, not a word, about the war itself. Flipping over to MSNBC, former actual newsman David Gregory is flopping around like a fish out of water doing a live radio show with Imus' former staff, and some woman no one has ever heard of. But at least he's not Joe Scarborough.
*sigh*
Thankfully, I can crank up the internet tubes and turn to DU's LBN section. Too bad most of the rest of America is still watching the goobers on The Today Show doing cooking segments and reporting the latest American Idol updates.
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