7.7.09

Thank You Big Media

At the best of times I find that the mainstream media is lazy, hypocritical, and low-brow, however this past couple of weeks has really taken the cake. After listening to CBC Radio 1 begin their hourly 5-minute news segment with a full minute and a half all about Michael Jackson's funeral followed by about 15 seconds on a helicopter crash which killed two Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan, I nearly lost it. This is about as coherent as my ranting can be at the moment.



Thank you all (CTV, CNN, CBC, NBC, etc.) for dropping all of the rest of the going ons in the world for the last two weeks to keep us all in the loop that Michael Jackson is still dead. I don't know what I would do with my life if it weren't for you. Oh, I'd probably be informed.

Did you know that there is a revolt happening in Iran? Did you know that there are civilians being shot and killed by police and the army in China this very moment? You'd never know it given the news networks' coverage.
Oh, and FYI, there are still two major wars going on. Iraq and Afghanistan ring a bell? Yeah, I hear a couple of brave Canadian soldiers lost their lives yesterday in a helicopter crash.

2 comments:

Shannon Patterson said...

the other news item that's really been getting to me is the garbage strike. "It's day++ of the worst garbage strike ever...". Windsor's had a garbage strike for like 12 weeks now and if the province hasn't legislated them back to work, why does Toronto think they should get legislated back after less than three weeks?

Still, I find CBC Radio the lesser of the evils.

Aimer said...

WHAT?! Michael Jackson is DEAD??!!
Man, I should turn on a radio or something once in awhile...