The latest trapped miners story has turned into a true reflection of how crappy our current media are... it's really bad.
Okay, so there's twelve miners trapped/buried in an explosion. True to form, the media drops any and everything...Abramoff, the President declaring himself absolute dictator, etc...
So of course, the media is desperate for a scoop - to be the first that can report what happened to these brave miners. And they are brave, it really is a testament to how bad television media is that their very presence and recycled speeches does the exact opposite of their intentions...true irony in action folks...steals any real drama and realism, any true tragedy, and just makes it a Desperate Housewives sidestory. So an initial unconfirmed report from the rescue squad says 12 alive, 1 dead.
Of course the media leaks it as soon as possible. But it isn't true, it's the opposite: 12 dead, 1 alive.
Well, the media instantaneously jumps on the people in charge, even though they kept their mouths shut and were trying to confirm. Out comes Rita Cosby, a classic blame bitch of the news (more on this in a moment), emphasizing and "empathizing" how irate those family members must be. Cue the press conference, and a host of reporters looking for someone to blame. Over and over. Who's to blame? How about the fucking television media? Christ. Of course gossip will spill out with the initial, incorrect report. Oops.
Now, the a definition of a "blame bitch": I've been noticing these crop up, as a fine new darwinian evolutionary path as the news devolves into meaninglessness. We all are sick of Natalee Holloway, of that Scott guy that killed his pregnant wife, of Michael Jackson, of OJ, and the like. But much like spam and junk mail, there is some hidden, massive majority of stupidity that consumes this shit. And now we have an official ambassador for these people: The blame bitches. MSNBC has Rita Cosby and (hilariously) Joe Scarborough. CNN has Nancy Grace. Who knows who Fox News has (Rita Cosby was initially from there). These people (especially Nancy Grace) attack officials in an over-the-top fashion, chase these stories whose only "news" appeal is pure melodrama (besides the two seconds of actual news in them, such as: woman who happened to be hot got drunk and killed). They huff and sigh and pretend offense and outrage at every single twist and turn to the meaningless story. The sell out any objectivity, restraint, and real intelligence and parade on insecurity, paranoid inner anger, and a host of other counterproductive dark human emotions and instincts.
The fact that Joe Scarborough has descended into this mode in pure desperation for ratings brings me no small satisfaction. Scarborough used to be a right-wing apologist who at least used to occaisionally display some spine when dressing down congress for out-of-control spending, but now he chases Natalee Holloway and the cruise ship murders (I think there's multiple ones now), with the best of the rest of the blame bitches. Calling a republican arrogant self-styled rock star dude a blame bitch. Priceless.
Since I usually miss Hardball which is scheduled for the rest of the senior citizen news watching public, it used to be rebroadcast around 7 or 8. Not now, there's a steady stream of blame bitches clogging the airways. Christ, even VH-1 Z-list celebrity commentary on the top 100 hairstyles of the 80s is better than that.
At least Dan Abrams was good at doing this. But he can't compete with the blame bitches and their army of stupidity.
Okay, so there's twelve miners trapped/buried in an explosion. True to form, the media drops any and everything...Abramoff, the President declaring himself absolute dictator, etc...
So of course, the media is desperate for a scoop - to be the first that can report what happened to these brave miners. And they are brave, it really is a testament to how bad television media is that their very presence and recycled speeches does the exact opposite of their intentions...true irony in action folks...steals any real drama and realism, any true tragedy, and just makes it a Desperate Housewives sidestory. So an initial unconfirmed report from the rescue squad says 12 alive, 1 dead.
Of course the media leaks it as soon as possible. But it isn't true, it's the opposite: 12 dead, 1 alive.
Well, the media instantaneously jumps on the people in charge, even though they kept their mouths shut and were trying to confirm. Out comes Rita Cosby, a classic blame bitch of the news (more on this in a moment), emphasizing and "empathizing" how irate those family members must be. Cue the press conference, and a host of reporters looking for someone to blame. Over and over. Who's to blame? How about the fucking television media? Christ. Of course gossip will spill out with the initial, incorrect report. Oops.
Now, the a definition of a "blame bitch": I've been noticing these crop up, as a fine new darwinian evolutionary path as the news devolves into meaninglessness. We all are sick of Natalee Holloway, of that Scott guy that killed his pregnant wife, of Michael Jackson, of OJ, and the like. But much like spam and junk mail, there is some hidden, massive majority of stupidity that consumes this shit. And now we have an official ambassador for these people: The blame bitches. MSNBC has Rita Cosby and (hilariously) Joe Scarborough. CNN has Nancy Grace. Who knows who Fox News has (Rita Cosby was initially from there). These people (especially Nancy Grace) attack officials in an over-the-top fashion, chase these stories whose only "news" appeal is pure melodrama (besides the two seconds of actual news in them, such as: woman who happened to be hot got drunk and killed). They huff and sigh and pretend offense and outrage at every single twist and turn to the meaningless story. The sell out any objectivity, restraint, and real intelligence and parade on insecurity, paranoid inner anger, and a host of other counterproductive dark human emotions and instincts.
The fact that Joe Scarborough has descended into this mode in pure desperation for ratings brings me no small satisfaction. Scarborough used to be a right-wing apologist who at least used to occaisionally display some spine when dressing down congress for out-of-control spending, but now he chases Natalee Holloway and the cruise ship murders (I think there's multiple ones now), with the best of the rest of the blame bitches. Calling a republican arrogant self-styled rock star dude a blame bitch. Priceless.
Since I usually miss Hardball which is scheduled for the rest of the senior citizen news watching public, it used to be rebroadcast around 7 or 8. Not now, there's a steady stream of blame bitches clogging the airways. Christ, even VH-1 Z-list celebrity commentary on the top 100 hairstyles of the 80s is better than that.
At least Dan Abrams was good at doing this. But he can't compete with the blame bitches and their army of stupidity.
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