OJ Simpson...Brittany Spears...No mention of legislation moving through Congress...no images of the millions of refugees we have created. After ten minutes of watching CNN bumpers, on a hunch, I logged onto CNN.com and then to Al Jazeera.com and compared the topics covered.
Let’s look at four randomly chosen topics.
Saudi Arabia 'buys 72 Eurofighters'
Saudi Arabia has signed an $8.9bn deal with the British government to buy 72 Eurofighter Typhoon jets from UK-based manufacturer BAE Systems.
Leader sworn in amid Freetown riots
Violence and looting have erupted in Sierra Leone just hours after Ernest Bai Koroma, the former opposition leader, was sworn in as the country's new president.
Typhoon Nari lashes South Korea
A fast-moving typhoon has killed at least 14 people in South Korea, with many others reported missing.
Greek conservatives celebrate win
Greek conservatives have celebrated a slim election victory, returning to power with promises to press ahead with a privatisation programme and other economic changes.
Link here: http://english.aljazeera.net
And now...four randomly chosen topics from CNN.com
http://www.cnn.com/...
Behind the curtain at Circe de Soleil’s KA
http://www.cnn.com/...
Test your business knowledge- take this Quiz!
http://www.cnn.com/...
Animal Expert trapped in turnstile with Flamingo!
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/...
Baseball fans get to vote on Barry Bonds steroid ridden record.
Case fucking closed.
What’s a few billion tax dollars disappeared into a sinkhole partly owned by the Vice president when you consider that OJ was arrested?
What difference does it make that priceless Mesopotamian archeological artifacts are being looted from all of posterity in light of the fact that Brittany may lose custody of her kids?
Who cares about the bills going through Congress when you have a missing girl in the Carribean?
Who cares that the dollar is the number two currency in the world behind the Euro and the Dow Jones is less valuable than the European stock market when you think about how much John Edwards pays for a haircut?
I mean I have to ask, what the fuck is wrong with our fucking news? I mean it doesn’t really matter how important it is, if it isn’t missing or isn’t attached to a pair of fake tits it just ain’t news.
I would recommend that if you use CNN as a default page, or create your own news paper that you RSS Feed from Al Jazeera because there is about three and a half times the journalism going on there. There is also a lot more coverage of amazing events like our dear allies the Saudis who do not buy F-15E Strike Eagles. No, they bought European combat aircraft...absolutely passed over the heads of US "journalists". I mean after all the protecting we have done for them they dis Boeing and no one notices.
I could go on ...but do I really need to?
(Waiter...another scotch please)