I have written before about our News Media loving bad news and, in this posting, I going to do it again.
Price of Gasoline Going Up and Up
We were told for weeks that high gas prices were ruining our economy...
- Everything was going to cost more because it costs more to get everything shipped to us.
- After filling up their gas tanks people have no money left to buy groceries.
- The price of gas was so high that people were not able to put gas in their cars to drive to work.
Then when the price of gasoline started going down I actually heard a Talking Head tell me that ... The falling price of gasoline was a sure sign of a slowdown in the economy.
Syria
For almost a year and a half we have been told...
- Innocent men, women and children were being slaughtered in the streets of Syria.
- The country was on the brink of civil war.
- The U.N. is helpless to bring an end to the killing.
A few days ago it appeared that the Syrian government is on the verge of collapse and my nightly news told me ... The U.S. Government was concerned about the implications of a sudden collapse of the Syrian Regime.
Sometimes I think that, if I were watching the Evening News one night and I said to my wife, “Well things are sure looking up” a member of our News Media would kick down my front door and come rushing in and slap me in the face.
Would I kid u?
3 comments:
That was a good one...especially with when da price of gasoline starts to fall and the economy is falling just after you said that the high price of gasoline is ruining da economy...good timing...etc...and the thing on the Syria...da news is soo inaccurate...you just do not know how to interpret what they say...and the adjectives they use to describe the magnitude of the problem of Syria falling...will it fall in the next twelve hours...before coffee break or in ten years...poor news techniques...a good one, Smartfella.
This is true..not foolishness at all. The question left is, "What, that the media tells us, is actually true?"
You R on 2 sumting! I wish the media would just throw us a bone - some uplifting news at the end of all the horror stories. Surely a feel good story can be found every day
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