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Not Much to Say

So why not say it anyway, then? Much of my time at the internet club has been used bouncing around Wikipedia, lately. It's addictiveness has been praised before by others, but that site's amazing. A person could spend hours there, read about everything and learn nothing beyond trivia. Absolutely fantastic.

Knowledge-gaining is even weaker on the TV front. CNN and Euronews have nearly round-the-clock election coverage. Euronews, people! Look, I'm all for the world participating in the U.S.'s affairs, but the fact is that this race is too close to call. The French and Germans will learn nothing from seeing Bush say for the thousandth time that Kerry did nothing in the Senate. Unless one or the other of them strips and starts bouncing around in front of whatever haybales or bushels of apples they're stumping in front of, it isn't news. And even then, I wouldn't want to see it.

At least, fascinatingly enough, it takes some of the attention off Iraq and the stories of car bombings and mutilations in Falluja don't occupy the first headline of the half hour. Now the reports from day to day seem to mold together and form one contiguous mass of "Iraq is messed up." I'm sure good things happen in Iraq, but you can't expect Walt Rogers or any of CNNs correspondents to report on them. Blood on the streets is far too interesting.

I want peace in Iraq, I want Iraq to be a stable country. I know the media is supposed to be objective, but when terrorists use the media to gain attantion, doesn't the media have an obligation to humans to not show each and every thing their darling freedom fighters do? Maybe they could show a story of an Iraqi finding work. It may not be happenening everywhere, but it is happening. Let's see some of that.

Uggh. Basically, I'm laying low this weekend and watching too much TV, and with MTV doing "Hip Hop Weekend" and Cartoon Network still in French, I shift to the news for mindless entertainment. Always a mistake.

Posted by Rob at October 17, 2004 03:44 PM