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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWatched the "news" for a bit, had to shut it off
Our media blows goats. It's a non-stop stream of (un)consciousness and wild speculation.
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Watched the "news" for a bit, had to shut it off (Original Post)
whatchamacallit
Apr 2013
OP
I just shut off the radio and computer and put on an old X-Files dvd. Will check in later.
geckosfeet
Apr 2013
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limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)1. +1 for blows goats. nt
slackmaster
(60,567 posts)2. Kind of like the DU GD forum today, only without quite as many ads.
liberal N proud
(60,338 posts)3. They go into feeding frenzy over any incident.
They go on and on and say nothing new.
geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)4. I just shut off the radio and computer and put on an old X-Files dvd. Will check in later.
Wait. I need to put this damn phone down too....
Island Blue
(5,819 posts)5. That Don Henley song "Dirty Laundry"
30 or so years before it's time.
Skittles
(153,170 posts)6. it is not much better here
KT2000
(20,585 posts)7. Woof Blitzer spoke of
being careful he did not over-exaggerate or under-exaggerate.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)9. That's right Wolfy got to exaggerate just enough.
whatchamacallit
(15,558 posts)10. under-exaggerate?
Oh man...
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)8. Any time an incident like this happens this big news outlets all have a collective orgasm...
They stopped dealing in real facts a long time ago.
Cali_Democrat
(30,439 posts)11. Our media is a sick joke or sure.
It's sad.