5 Pathetic Failures of the American Media This Week
1. In praise of bald and gray old guys who rank women.
Esquire and its ASME award-winning writer Tom Junod win the week’s "Oops, My Sexist Underwear is Showing" award for their “ In praise of 42-year-old women” article (illustrated with Sofia Vergara in a black maillot with her legs bent and Photoshopped into perverse plastic doll-like curves, like Barbie’s).
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2. Poor Israeli zoo elephants.
The brilliant PR machine that is Israel reached for the bleachers but slammed a foul ball when someone provided the world with video and pictures of an Israeli zoo elephant shielding its baby from air raid sirens. Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and the Daily Mail were among the Western media outlets that picked up the photo.
Awesome cuteness, Tel Aviv!
Not one of them bothered to run the video beside any imagery of one of the dead Gaza mothers (at last count 10) lying on top of one of the dead Gaza children (last count, at least 20). None of the articles even included words to the effect that there are human Gaza mothers hovering over their human children as the ferocious Israeli assault on Gaza continues.
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3. Brownie to the border rescue!
Big thanks to Rush Limbaugh for noting that Fox News trotted out Michael “Heckuva Job, Brownie” Brown to commentate on the refugee crisis this week. Yes. They. Did.
That border-state brown people tsunami that’s freaking out the nativists really calls for the best minds of our generation, and that includes the notoriously effective public servant, Bush’s legendary Katrina-FEMA director.
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