is anyone else tired of our ****ing media???

[shamrock]

What ever happened to the news people doing just that, giving America the ****ing news?? This cheerleading, self advertising, self promoting bullshit is driving me insane. It seems to me it started sometime around when every station during their programming insisted on posting their label (insignia) in one of the corners of your television picture. War has brought the absolute worst out of these jerkoffs.

The shameless self promotion is everywhere, networks and cable. I swear these idiots think they are the real story, not the young soldiers some of which will have given their life when this is over with. The no holds barred, everything goes to beat the competitor is just sickening. Not only disrespectfully but totally unprofessional.

Fox news this morning with the young pfc Lynch' s father on camera shortly after he learned his daughter was rescued. Over and over asking the father & brother what channel news they watch. They just learn their Family member miraculously is still alive and rescued, like they give a shit what station they watch or saw it on. But nothing is out of bounds or to tasteless for these chest thumping self promoting clowns. I laughed my ass off when the brother finally said "I saw it on CNN". Even that didn't shut the blowhards up, he says "you should be watching Fox" like anyone in that Family cares about which ****ing station. At the same time they are flashing "exclusive" in the upper corner during the entire interview, more self promoting & strokeing. Only problem is I watched Mr. Lynch get interviewed 10 minutes earlier on NBC today show, who also by the way was blowing themselves about their ****ing exclusive.

Shamrock

 

[michaeljbird]

I agree Shamrock, capitalism at it's finest

 

[AR182]

I also agree. It's great that they rescued pfc Lynch, but over & over all of the news networks are asking the same questions.The same thing happened with the rescue of the smart girl. The over coverage was pure torture. Enough

 

[gecko]

well said. The news business basically boils down to who outscoops the other. FOX was the first to display a flag in the corner. They think they are more patriotic than the rest, even chiding the others after 9/11 happened for not being pro-American enough. MSNBC has suddenly become "America's News Channel" (yah right!). At least CNN is boring, the way news should be.

 

[Vicc Inzagio]

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100% with u on this unfunny shity thing...... fwack 'em all :gf:

 

[gardenweasel]

another great example

another great example

This war is an abject and utter failure. What everyone thought would be a quick, decisive victory has turned into an embarrassing series of reversals. The enemy, -- a ragtag, badly-fed collection of hotheads and fanatics ? has failed to be shocked and awed by the most magnificent military machine ever fielded. Their dogged resistance has shown us the futility of the idea that a nation of millions could ever be subjugated and administered, no matter what obscene price we are willing to pay in blood and money.

The President of the United States is a buffoon, an idiot, a man barely able to speak the English language. His vice president is a little-seen, widely despised enigma and his chief military advisor a wild-eyed warmonger. Only his Secretary of State offers any hope of redemption, for he at least is a reasonable, well-educated man, a man most thought would have made a far, far better choice for Chief Executive.

We must face the fact that we had no business forcing this unjust war on a people who simply want to be left alone. It has damaged our international relationships beyond any measure, and has proven to be illegal, immoral and nothing less than a monumental mistake that will take generations to rectify. We can never hope to subdue and remake an entire nation of millions. All we will do is alienate them further. So we must bring this war to an immediate end, and make a solemn promise to history that we will never launch another war of aggression and preemption again, so help us God.






So spoke the American press. The time was the summer of 1864.

Everyone thought the Rebels would be whipped at Bull Run, and that the Confederacy would collapse within a few days or hours of such a defeat. No one expected the common Southern man to fight so tenaciously, a man who owned no slaves and who in fact despised the rich fire-eaters who had taken them to war.

Lincoln was widely considered a bumpkin, a gorilla, an uncouth backwoods hick who by some miracle of political compromise had made it to the White House. Secretary of War Stanton had assumed near-dictatorial powers and was also roundly despised. Only Secretary of State William Seward, a well-spoken, intelligent Easterner and a former Presidential candidate, seemed fit to hold office.

After three interminable and unbelievably bloody years of conflict, many in the Northern press had long ago become convinced that there was no hope of winning the far, and far less of winning the peace that followed. After nearly forty months of battle and maneuver, after seeing endless hopes dashed in spectacular failure, after watching the magnificent Army of the Potomac again and again whipped and humiliated by a far smaller, under-fed, under-equipped force, the New York newspapers and many, many others were calling for an immediate end to this parade of failures.

It took them forty months and hundreds of thousands killed to reach that point. Today, many news outlets have reached a similar conclusion after ten days and less than fifty combat fatalities.

Ahhh. Progress.

some things never change...i posted this in another thread mistakenly....it`s a pretty interesting read...

 

[djv]

gardenweasel 600600 was final esitmate killed in civil war. Like I said once before. We hurt our selfs more in that war then all others togeather. Was a fools war.

 

[jigs]

This is the problem I have.


When the media becomes the story, instead of reporting it.


Houston we have a problem.


But then again, there's an old adage; don't shoot the messenger.

 

[gardenweasel]

dlv

dlv

agree that it was a terrible tragedy for our country....what was the alternative?.......imagine how history may have changed had the south been allowed to secede....