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bjarvisOver the past few weeks, I'm finding the daily news sounds just like it did yesterday. Some minor details have been added or deleted, but effectively it's the same damn story, again and again.
1. The Olympics.
I just don't care. The internationalpharmaceutical face-off games are so irrelevant to me that they might as well involve bacteria on another planet. At least bacteria on another planet would be news-worthy.
Beijing has smog? China lacks human rights? Really? This is news to whom exactly?
2. Off-shore Drilling.
Republicans in favour, Democrats against. This has been the status quo for years. How can it be newsworthy when nothing has changed or will likely change in the foreseeable future?
3. The Credit Crunch
Yeah, it's bad. It's been bad for a year. It'll be bad for at least another two, possibly three. There's nothing new to say about it except updating the day's list of bankruptcies. Just once, I'd like to see headlines like "The Economy Sucks. See details on pages E3-17 of our Sunday edition 'cause it's old news."
4. Vice-Presidential Selections
Please. We all know the respective teams aren't going to announce their choice until they're ready and the odds of a leak approach zero. Why are we wasting energy on idle speculation? How is this any less pointless than betting on, say, the next celebrity drug overdose or custody battle?
1. The Olympics.
I just don't care. The international
Beijing has smog? China lacks human rights? Really? This is news to whom exactly?
2. Off-shore Drilling.
Republicans in favour, Democrats against. This has been the status quo for years. How can it be newsworthy when nothing has changed or will likely change in the foreseeable future?
3. The Credit Crunch
Yeah, it's bad. It's been bad for a year. It'll be bad for at least another two, possibly three. There's nothing new to say about it except updating the day's list of bankruptcies. Just once, I'd like to see headlines like "The Economy Sucks. See details on pages E3-17 of our Sunday edition 'cause it's old news."
4. Vice-Presidential Selections
Please. We all know the respective teams aren't going to announce their choice until they're ready and the odds of a leak approach zero. Why are we wasting energy on idle speculation? How is this any less pointless than betting on, say, the next celebrity drug overdose or custody battle?
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does this qualify as new news?
Date: 2008-08-08 04:46 pm (UTC)The Westboro Phelpsites were spozed to come to Trawna to protest a play made up largely of verbatim quotes from Chairman Phred, moving on to Red Deer AB to protest a performance of The Laramie Project, and then thought to hit the funeral en route.
They were turned back at the border, as a group promulgating hate speech.
story here on CBC.