Thursday, September 16, 2004 :::
 

I was home today, writing, and at 3 I turned on the teevee so I didn’t miss Ken on Jeopardy! BREAKING NEWS came on instead. A local newsperson was reporting the incident of a AA jet on it’s way to Pittsburg that had turned around to O’hare due to something. A LOUD EXPLOSION! PLUME OF SMOKE!!! According to eye-witness reports. Then an AA spokesperson came on and said that early reports indictated a bird flew into the engine, all passengers were fine, no problems. BUT the news person tried to rachet up the situation suggesting something more nefarious in these terrorist-alert times. The spokesperson said WAIT! And once again explained the bird thing.
How refreshing! The media is like a dog trying to salivate in any news story. They are alarmists! Or is it the BIG ratings they are after?
Also today there was another news story about 3 people being kidnapped in Iraq. Now the story was that they worked for a large Iraqi construction company. How come the actual company was stated? Hmmmmmm. Could that be bin Laden Construction Company?
And one more question. I liked the idea of embeds…in the beginning, but now I am thinking the Vulcans (Bush & his crew) pulled off a media coup. If you put the newspeople, the ones who should be objective about reporting what actually happened, in with the soldiers, people taking orders from the top, well short story…let’s put it this way, are you more likely to report bad things about those you know or those you have no contact with?

::: posted by bite me, kick me, make me scream at 9:20 PM