Posted by Hunter [12.211.197.195 - 12-211-197-195.client.attbi.com] on 23 September 2003 at 00.22.40 ZuluTime:

In Reply to: Fun things posted by Gator on 22 September 2003 at 12.52.31 ZuluTime:

Okay, so they're probably two different companies. Am I supposed to know this shit?

So you've become something sorta like a mallcop that gets told to monitor an open-air mall somewhere in southern Mexico, even though the farthest south you've ever been is one of those Alaskan island, and you've never heard a bit of spanish in your life....

Good for you on passing your boards, though.

As for CNN -- it's probably the business. They have to make things newsworthy. And with as dull as a car-bombing can be to the overfed and bored zombie-like masses over here...well, you gotta make it sound a little more extravagant. Or at least show the explosion on a live simulcast, like they did with the rest of the activities over there.

After all, what else is there to watch? We're in-between seasons, and the season premiers aren't for weeks. And MTV occasionally interrupts RealWorld with those silly video things....

Yeah, we need live webcam shots of mile after mile of sand, and stories about people that didn't exist dying in carbombings in between airings of the 700 Club, because one can only take so much of Pat Robertson praying for the 'retirement' of Supreme Court Justices and the diversion of Isabelle....

Don't get me wrong -- it's great to watch shit blow up, and this whole Iraq thing is probably an alright thing.
      But I'm thinking maybe it might be better if we weren't reporting the fight against something so tightly wound around its propaganda that it blows itself up on opposing sensationalist news stations that sometimes wouldn't know the truth if it crawled up their ass and died.

It's probably one of our basic rights. Isn't it right there in the Constitution?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the news stations to make shit up as they go along, basing it loosely on the real news that they don't see fit to report.

Now watch, someone will read this, recognise what I've just said as a fundimental part of 'what's wrong with the world today' and decide to, say, add this to the Constitution....

The Federal Communications Commission may, with regard to due process, restrain the freedom of speech for any individual or establishment of America, provided that such individual or establishment is found guilty in a court of law of Conspiracy to Misinform. [stolen shamelessly from Everynight]

Pat Robertson says to pray for the salvation of every gay lesbian homosexual druggie atheist because it's their fault that those planes hit those buildings, and let those Justices retire because they wish to uphold personal freedoms. The threat of gay marriages sullies the pristine and holy goodness that is the god-given-gift of wedlock.

And I've accidentally run off the road into Grimm's FairyTales Forest of Incoherent Rants....

I think I'll just sit here quietly for a while. Then maybe I'll find out if the evil witch's house is made out of cinnamon buns....

Try not to get yourself hurt or anything. You're about the only person from school I get to talk to anymore.