Here's why MSM are such a joke.

[Bullshot]

This morning on ABC-radio news and the Today show, you know what the lead stories were?

Silicone breast implants and Michael Jackson.

What percentage of women have breast implants? Since this story re-emerged, you would think that virtually every woman has them and they are a ticking bomb ready to go off. And the TV network news clowns are getting their nuts off on this story because they can show the implants and someone holding them and fondling them like they're real breasts. I'll bet Matt Lauer gets his jollies seeing this.

And Michael Jackson? Geez! Get that clown off the news now!

Nothing on Iraq, Iran or Afghanistan. Nothing on the newest economic figures. Nothing on Tom "Cockroach" Delay.

These guys are a major insult to anybody's intelligence!

Rant off!

[illflem]

1. It's the average American who is

a major insult to anybody's intelligence.
The MSM is just feeding them what they want to hear.
Face it, Joe six-pack doesn't care about politics unless a scandal is involved.

[PATRICK]

12. The part that is correct there

is the part that is being exploited. Ordinary people DO understand and are interested in a surprising array of issues and science. What the MSM chooses to feed them is titillating crap which can be most kindly written off as the combination of the pleasure/profit principle that is the crippling basic nature of corporate media. They had to TRY to do the news against their own market forces. Now they don't try and have spun it into a new way to serve profitable corporate interest and power NEVER the pure job of journalism(that is utterly a lie in its very soul).

Blaming the consumer is a sorry recourse when trying to improve the disaster. The truth is that the consumer has been totally misled into thinking he should ever trust a corporate news media to act against its own nature and perform a selfless civil service.

Now most American minds are trapped in a national forum of conforming lies. The trivia irritates many but they do not comprehend the news has been disappeared in their busy distracted lives.

I have found my co-workers can understand science, politics, complicated situations much better than the blowhards on TV. The Internet releases that superior conversation in a way that shatters the illusion of the corporate news, reducing it to a lingering addiction squatting over our right to know and share and act.

The "news" keeps people from communicating even more than knowing the truth.

[HEyHEY]

14. Bingo

[autorank]

2. CM (corporate media) pissing you off! Turn them off...

...They are a true vomitorium :puke:...and that's being kind. I think the only part of their brain that's used is the "reptilian function." I can't even watch a little bit without noticing something that I find offensive. Someone talked about "the banality of evil" and I think that described CM.

The only things I can watch now are: The Mystery/Encore movie channels on cable; C-SPAN; and local public access cable.

[Bullshot]

4. Actually, I have shut them off.

I haven't sat down to see any major network TV news since the November elections. But today, I had to wait for the kids to get on the bus because my wife had to be at work early, so I saw the Today show. What a joke!

[autorank]

5. It's amazing that just a little dose will do it.

OMFingG! Katey Couric just makes me want to well...and that Matt idiot. It cracks me up when they're referred to as "liberals." They are just two nasty little people who've had way too much "packaging." Couric looks like an android and Lauer is perpetually irked at something or another, certainly not his over-sized pay check!

Someone could make a fortune rerunning the old Today show with Daver Garroway. I watched that as a kid every morning and learned a great deal. The guy was terrific.

:hi:

[autorank]

3. CM (corporate media) pissing you off! Turn them off...

...They are a true vomitorium :puke:...and that's being kind. I think the only part of their brain that's used is the "reptilian function." I can't even watch a little bit without noticing something that I find offensive. Someone talked about "the banality of evil" and I think that described CM.

The only things I can watch now are: The Mystery/Encore movie channels on cable; C-SPAN; and local public access cable.

[FreedomAngel82]

7. That's what I do

If I'm curious to see what's up I turn on CSPAN. I used to watch Scarborough but no more. He's a prick and I don't know if it's just me or what but he's been worse since after the election feeding to the republicans bullshit. I just wish there was one network I could go to for real intelligent news. I know there's Democracy Now and all that but you have to pay for those channels and my Dad doesn't care about getting any other channels (I have tried). So for my news I come here and a few blogs I trust.

[goodboy]

6. 15 people died in car bombs in iraq today...(nt()

[FreedomAngel82]

9. No mention in that

*sigh* But let's talk like crazy about the breast implant bit and Jackson. The breast implant thing is important for who has them or was thinking about getting them but you don't just ignore other stories as well. :mad:

[coloradodem2005]

8. Thank you for reminding me why I don't watch the "News" anymore.

You get a bunch of details over relatively inconsequential stuff and when they do politics, they always give you one vantage point and a bunch of talking points and not the real scoop.

[FreedomAngel82]

10. Yep

They never mention anything good that we do. Kerry has been busy at work but you don't hear about that now do you. Of course not. Nothing Edwards is doing. Nothing about Dean. Nothing about General Clark's recent meetings.

[Athame]

13. and you have to wade through the commercials, too

Whenever I do turn on the TV, as when looking for info on a coming storm or important event, I am immediately frustrated by the teaser of news stories, several minutes of commercials (some mildly entertaining, most just disgusting) and then the most inane stories first before the tiny tidbits of what I want to hear. I guess I have just gotten spoiled with DU. If there is an earthquake or an important vote in the senate I can be sure it will be on DU in the blink of an eye.

DU :yourock:

[Warpy]

11. HAHA! My mother had a mastectomy. Some months later

at a neighborhood party, some old goat was trying to paw her and wouldn't take "NO!" for an answer. She reached in, pulled out her prosthesis and tossed it to him and told him to go have a ball.

Personally, I think most men should get the implants themselves. That way, they'd always have their favorite toys with them.