The news agencies used to take pride in sending reporters to all points on the globe to gather actual news. Now, they seem to enjoy stories that don’t move around too much. Sex, drugs, abusive relationships, and murder. Our tax dollars at work while the media tries to convince us this murder is more important than any other murder that takes place on any given day.Any news on job creation?Respectfully,C.
The press and the TV News shows have now become the equivalent of bread and circuses. Such “reporting” is more like gladiator shows… appealing to the most prurient of interests. Thousands of children are dying in Sudan and THIS is more important? I get the impression it is mainly women who spend their time clucking their tongues over such things as a sordid murder, soaking up every detail like blood into a sponge. And then they wonder why they can’t break through the glass ceilings? Well, for one thing, most people who take themselves seriously are too busy improving their minds or studying to watch such claptrap!
I am moving off-subject to reply to some questions you asked of me a couple of days ago.
1. I did not say that Waco and Ruby Ridge or the administrations under whom they occurred was the equal of Saddam Hussein’s rule. I was pointing out that one of our justifications for initiating war in Iraq (“He killed his own people”) could be used to justify war with the US instead.
Thank you for posting the details from one of Saddam’s torture victims. I wonder how similar these were to what our government did after the invasion. I do know that they admitted to waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 180 times on one month. For the math-challenged, that’s six times per day, on average.
I do not in any way excuse what KSM is alleged to have done, and I hope we have the right guy so we can punish him properly. BUT, imagine for a moment that you are in an enemy prison, and you are waterboarded. Do you have any desire to help them? Won’t you tell them what you think they want to hear—anything but the truth—to make the pain stop?
Now, if they do it to you 179 times more in one month, are you even more willing to tell the truth?
We are no longer the country we are so proud of: warrantless wiretapping, torture/rendition, indefinite detention, a private army ungoverned by conventional laws (Blackwater)…..we have gotten much closer to what we despise in other countries. It has been slowly developing, but gained a great deal of momentum under Mr. Bush, continuing with Mr. Obama.
2. You come up with the most interesting conclusions….When I responded to your pointing out that nobody read the ACA before voting, I asked if you thought anyone read the PATRIOT act before voting on it; I think I used another example in addition. Your response to me was something along the lines of: “So you think that if it’s all right to do it once, it’s okay to do it forever?”
Not at all; it’s the mirror image of that argument: my point is that it is NEVER right to enact legislation that has not been carefully checked to ensure that its intent, and ONLY its intent, is included without the potential for creation of loopholes. And no one has been that responsible in the Congress since way before the Obama administration.
A secondary point is to wonder why this sort of thing was tolerable under other administrations, but suddenly it joins a list of things that Obama has done to ruin America.
chazandru almost 11 years ago
The news agencies used to take pride in sending reporters to all points on the globe to gather actual news. Now, they seem to enjoy stories that don’t move around too much. Sex, drugs, abusive relationships, and murder. Our tax dollars at work while the media tries to convince us this murder is more important than any other murder that takes place on any given day.Any news on job creation?Respectfully,C.
Pogostiks Premium Member almost 11 years ago
The press and the TV News shows have now become the equivalent of bread and circuses. Such “reporting” is more like gladiator shows… appealing to the most prurient of interests. Thousands of children are dying in Sudan and THIS is more important? I get the impression it is mainly women who spend their time clucking their tongues over such things as a sordid murder, soaking up every detail like blood into a sponge. And then they wonder why they can’t break through the glass ceilings? Well, for one thing, most people who take themselves seriously are too busy improving their minds or studying to watch such claptrap!
ossiningaling almost 11 years ago
Or maybe she’s gone back to the clinic for more meds.Zing!
PlainBill almost 11 years ago
You….are….the….freak….show….
I Play One On TV almost 11 years ago
@ansonia:
I am moving off-subject to reply to some questions you asked of me a couple of days ago.
1. I did not say that Waco and Ruby Ridge or the administrations under whom they occurred was the equal of Saddam Hussein’s rule. I was pointing out that one of our justifications for initiating war in Iraq (“He killed his own people”) could be used to justify war with the US instead.
Thank you for posting the details from one of Saddam’s torture victims. I wonder how similar these were to what our government did after the invasion. I do know that they admitted to waterboarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammed 180 times on one month. For the math-challenged, that’s six times per day, on average.
I do not in any way excuse what KSM is alleged to have done, and I hope we have the right guy so we can punish him properly. BUT, imagine for a moment that you are in an enemy prison, and you are waterboarded. Do you have any desire to help them? Won’t you tell them what you think they want to hear—anything but the truth—to make the pain stop?
Now, if they do it to you 179 times more in one month, are you even more willing to tell the truth?
We are no longer the country we are so proud of: warrantless wiretapping, torture/rendition, indefinite detention, a private army ungoverned by conventional laws (Blackwater)…..we have gotten much closer to what we despise in other countries. It has been slowly developing, but gained a great deal of momentum under Mr. Bush, continuing with Mr. Obama.
2. You come up with the most interesting conclusions….When I responded to your pointing out that nobody read the ACA before voting, I asked if you thought anyone read the PATRIOT act before voting on it; I think I used another example in addition. Your response to me was something along the lines of: “So you think that if it’s all right to do it once, it’s okay to do it forever?”
Not at all; it’s the mirror image of that argument: my point is that it is NEVER right to enact legislation that has not been carefully checked to ensure that its intent, and ONLY its intent, is included without the potential for creation of loopholes. And no one has been that responsible in the Congress since way before the Obama administration.
A secondary point is to wonder why this sort of thing was tolerable under other administrations, but suddenly it joins a list of things that Obama has done to ruin America.
I hope you now have a better understanding.
lonecat almost 11 years ago
More than 600 people were killed in the building collapse in Bangladesh, and we’re fixated on Jodi Arias and Honey Boo-Boo.
I Play One On TV almost 11 years ago
“Try a one liner, I Play!!”
I accept your apology.
pirate227 almost 11 years ago
She deserves the death penalty.
cdward almost 11 years ago
I think it’s more accurate that each post is small because you usually have between 3 and 7 for each comic.
MurphyHerself almost 11 years ago
I want to know who she is, too, but nobody is answering that question. Go figure.
chazandru almost 11 years ago
Well said, Mr.Russell.Thank you.Sincerely,C.
pirate227 almost 11 years ago
No, the straw man that you created in your head is. Just goes to show that you don’t know half as much as you think you do.