One of the most annoying aspects of my job is that for 10 hours, theres a projector showing Fox News on a 5 foot screen at the front fo the room... but without sound. But the lack of sound isn't the most annoying aspect (we have the captioning on and can read if so inclinced), its the content of the Fox News network. Either its the most useless news stories in the world (and watch it for 10 hours straight you'll see them over and over) or we take a guenuine story and blow it out of proportion.This is not unique to Fox, the rest are about the same.
The inspiration for this rant today comes form 2 hours of live coverage of rescues of flood victims in Pennylvania and Maryland. While I am sympathetic to those who will suffer damge and dislocation due to torrential rains, 2 hours of people being "rescued" from a building just aggrevated me. Now, these people are being loaded into a zodiac raft from a warehouse type building. And then, 2 people pulled the raft about a block to "dry land". The part that annoyed me was the flood waters were all of oh... about 4-6 inches deep. Can we not walk through 4 inches of water half a block and need the Coast Guard to come get us?? When I was 5 years old thats what we called a good time. Hell, i still would be the one out playing in the water!!
Fine, so we're boating stranded people a block in 6 inch deep water to rescue them... but does this really rate 2 hours of untinerrupted helicopter coverage?? I mean there has to be something else going on more consequential to the public in general. There shoulda been a car chase somewhere in America so we could split the screen and get both happening LIVE!! Then the ratings would have shot up!
People wonder why i don't watch the news... I'm always of the opinion if it effects me, i'll know about it before CNN. Otherwise i'll manage just fine. And besides its already happened, nothing much i can do about it now. If CNN could tell me today that a car will drive into my living room tomorrow... well, thast worth reporting.
Luckily it hasn't been too bad this week, we've coerced the holder of the TV channel changer to put World Cup games on in the morning. I think i'm gonna crack open a beer and enjoy not being "informed". That being said, I think its gong to be Brazil over Italy for the title... anyone wanna put some money on it?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment