I don't get it. On CNN.com today, there's a video in the "popular news" spot with the headline "Jodie Foster Thanks Gay Partner." So what? Why is this news? If she thanked her husband for something, would that be news? There are plenty of attention-seeking whores out there who are happy to call the papers every time they go out for a frappucino or launch some wine-in-a-can-type crap -- can't the "news" just be happy with them? Or, here's an idea: How about we report on actual news. How many people are dead in Iraq today? What's that crazy Ahmadinejad up to? Maybe a little Kim Jong Il? Or something. Anything that actually affects people's lives. Grrrrrrr.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Why is this news?
I don't get it. On CNN.com today, there's a video in the "popular news" spot with the headline "Jodie Foster Thanks Gay Partner." So what? Why is this news? If she thanked her husband for something, would that be news? There are plenty of attention-seeking whores out there who are happy to call the papers every time they go out for a frappucino or launch some wine-in-a-can-type crap -- can't the "news" just be happy with them? Or, here's an idea: How about we report on actual news. How many people are dead in Iraq today? What's that crazy Ahmadinejad up to? Maybe a little Kim Jong Il? Or something. Anything that actually affects people's lives. Grrrrrrr.
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Doesn't is suck that we have to print what folks WILL read or, worse yet, WANT to read instead of what they SHOULD read? Yet, if we start telling folks what to read, then where are we? Catch-22, I guess. I do marvel at what makes Headline News, though. It's all mind-numbing.
blah Blah Blah. cry me a river.
the best part is that it happened over a week ago. the blogs were talking about it then and have moved on. CNN just now caught on to it.
Move on people.
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