"It must be true, I saw it on the news"

[Gatito Grande]

This is a thread, not for the news of the day (several threads for that over on the Kitten), but for commenting on the coverage of the news, on TV.*



My first post, is to rant about what I just heard Miles O'Brien say over on CNN:

Quote:

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If all goes well . . . this President will be able to keep his job.

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Now this was in connection to Ayatollah Al-Sistani brokering a peace-deal w/ Moqtada Al-Sadr in Najaf (about which I'm highly suspicious, BTW: Sadr won! Winning sides don't disarm, they take power). . . and I'm almost certain that Mr. O'Brien would claim that he was just talking about "if all goes well, the U.S. troops won't have to fight, and it'll look good for the President, and then he will be able to keep his job."



But I don't buy that for a second. No, I think O'Brien just uttered Ye Olde Freudian Slip, and that the way I summarized it above, is exactly what he meant.



CNN is far better than Faux News, of course (and even MSNBC---so I hear, but I haven't been able to stand it for more than a year). But a reporter like O'Brien---CNN's official NASA reporter, and w/ obvious U.S.-military sympathies---has slipped into this "Good for Dubya/Bad for Dubya" news-interpretation just wee too blatantly.



GG Ya wanna really hear some good news for the U.S., and Iraq, Miles? Then you'll stop cheering on the sh*t-for-brains Commander-in-Chief who got us into the mess, and who has lost all credibility (not to mention a lack of a plan) to get us out of it! Out



*Yes, you can say positive things about the coverage, too. If possible.

[sam7777]

GG: CNN is better than Faux news but they all have a corporate bias IMHO and business prefers Bush.



I prefer to get my news on the web where I can get more in depth and different points of view. These days I only watch CNN for Headline News and ocassionally Judy Woodruff's politics.

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[beautifultrgdy]

The news is nothing but a plot to distact the public with stories of little children who fall into wells and basketball players who raper women so that we don't figure out that Bush is a bleeding idiot. That's my outlook on 'regular' news.