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I heard the news today, oh boy…
: Ken Layne watches the news:
And nothing about Iraq on the news today. I’ve been flipping through the cable news channels and it’s all Ivan the Terrible and Bush Memos. Did the war with Iraq end, again? Did we win? High Five!
And Martha. And Laci.
Here’s Iraq news in perspective:
http://belmontclub.blogspot.com/2004/09/iraq-part-1-number-nature-and.html
True, the broadcast media devote ten times as much airtime to MemoGate than Iraq War. But there’ve been a lot of pixels spent – especially in the last two days – showing how we’re losing the war in Iraq.
More at newpatriot.org.
Wow, you mean the Pro News Media is using all its huge mass of money and hi-tech to focus almost exclusively on two or three shows (the third is the Scott Peterson trial — I kid you not). Well, you could knock me down with a feather!
Seriously, Ken’s supposedly been in the news biz. He’s surprised?
Hm. I meant “two or three stories.”
Gee, could it have been that there wasn’t enough death and violence to show that day. That’s all it bothers to broadcast anyway.
Layne needs an intervention. Unless he’s really pulling legs, he’s gone over the edge on politics. He’s done a CBS with a Cheney quote, assigning it a meaning absolutely at odds with what it actually says — and then prints the actual quote below it so you can see how his fevered brain is working!
Perhaps it’s a call for help . . .
There are bloggers still reporting on Iraq. Just look around.
One of the reasons blogs are so important is that you can obtain the news that’s of interest to you and screw what the MSM decides to report on. Just wait a while and I’m sure the MSM will return to their reports on how Bush has lost in Iraq.
I’m glad the MSM is reporting on ‘Rathergate/memogate’. It shows the influence some bloggers have had on the MSM. If it weren’t for the blogs, Rather & CBS would have been able to pass off their fiction as fact.