St. Mary's River Falls
The Sunday news shows are and have always been unique in the universe of reportage. Whatever irritants of "news" may come, Monday through Saturday, the Sunday shows still provide that much-needed and very exclusive haven for the powerful to talk about what
they want to talk about.
And nothing else.
Sunday news shows on NBC, ABC, CBS, CNN and Fox failed to cover the People's Climate March, a massive protest against climate change being held September 21 in New York City in conjunction with events in more than 150 countries worldwide.
Meet the Press, Face the Nation, State of the Union, and Fox News Sunday ignored the event, which is being touted by participants as "the largest mobilization against climate change in the history of the planet." The Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel briefly mentioned the march on ABC's This Week while arguing that national security concerns surrounding climate change are not receiving adequate attention.
It is true on every day, of course, but on Sundays you can set your watch by it. The Sunday shows are where you hear John McCain talk about what John McCain wants to talk about. It is where Paul Ryan was and is and will always be a Budget Expert, and where the Iraq War is forever a mere six more months from being won. The Sunday shows are a needed respite where you finally get to hear what the best patriots that can be rallied by a General Electric or a Comcast think about the current state of things, a place where wags funded by the companies pulling tar sands out of the ground get to sound off on the travails government places on job creators these days, or where the people who write columns in the best papers can finally get their important voices heard. Sundays are not for listening, after all. Sundays are for preaching.
And certain things remain sacred.
Blast from the Past. At Daily Kos on this date in 2007—Another story you won't read in the press:
The story as it appears in the traditional media:
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday. |
The story as it would be happening if the perpetrators didn't have federal contracts, fancy suits, and a PR firm:
Federal prosecutors Military intelligence officials are investigating whether torturing employees members of the private security firm Blackwater USA a suspected terrorist cell that illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday. |
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