CNennui
I watch CNN every morning when I work out. It's great because I get so angry watching how the station has sunk into the whoredom of media depravity that I find renewed strength and drive. Every time another blonde girl goes missing somewhere I get to another dime on my bench press--it's like a MacLuhanesque-drinking game.
You can't tell what the real news is anymore because they're so obsessed with celebrity stories and SMWP events (Stupid Missing White People). You can go for days without seeing an Iraq story, weeks to get a body count number. For those of us old enough to remember, what a change from Vietnam where Walter Cronkite would shove it in our face every dinner.
I hate the way they have paid advertisements masquerading as news: Rally whats-his-name, a Steven Seagull look-alike who grimly reports each morning that airports are 45 minutes delayed in the name of Travelocity (completely useless information and generally wrong). At Christmas time, they sold airtime to dot coms to report on what peoplle were buying in their little E-elf way. Not news, not even statistically valid.
They simper, they giggle, they titter. The only news show with a laugh track.
Thank God for Miles O'Brien. He has a dark side, a sense of humor and I suspect, just a little bit weary cynicism about his profession and his job.
Things have gotten reallly bad when you have to watch Al Jazeera to get your news.
Posted on January 18, 2006
