The Politics of the News
Ever been curious to know the political leaning of your favorite news webpage?
Earlier today, the "Iraq Study Group Report" was released and was front page news on every webpage that covered current events. Huge, bold headlines splashed on the screen, with sublinks offering everything from opinion polls to talking head commentaries.
But then, something else happened, water was apparently discovered on Mars!! Or so Fox News and The Drudge Report proclaimed on their lead banners. Sure, a report about one of the biggest political and perhaps even social issues of the past several years just hit with a huge thud - but that news apparently pales in comparison to a photograph that may or may not prove that water once existed on Mars, at least according to Drudge and Fox.
Seeing that I got the feeling that those web pages didn't want the story that actually has the text "We can no longer afford to stay the course" in the big headline spot? Of course, it works both ways and I'm sure that the liberal pages will beat this story over and over for the next month, but it just amused (and angered actually) me that today Drudge and Fox would rather tell you about WATER ON MARS than about the debacle in Iraq and a report that is finally telling it like it is.
p.s. which, after reading the headlines about what was in the report, did you just feel like saying "no shit?!" How did the rest of the country know that we were losing the war, that we needed to talk to the neighboring countries instead of making bigger enemies with them, that we have failed in our accomplishments and were losing the war in every aspect...how is it that most of us already knew that yet it took a 150+ page report to finally get through to our moron President?
Earlier today, the "Iraq Study Group Report" was released and was front page news on every webpage that covered current events. Huge, bold headlines splashed on the screen, with sublinks offering everything from opinion polls to talking head commentaries.
But then, something else happened, water was apparently discovered on Mars!! Or so Fox News and The Drudge Report proclaimed on their lead banners. Sure, a report about one of the biggest political and perhaps even social issues of the past several years just hit with a huge thud - but that news apparently pales in comparison to a photograph that may or may not prove that water once existed on Mars, at least according to Drudge and Fox.
Seeing that I got the feeling that those web pages didn't want the story that actually has the text "We can no longer afford to stay the course" in the big headline spot? Of course, it works both ways and I'm sure that the liberal pages will beat this story over and over for the next month, but it just amused (and angered actually) me that today Drudge and Fox would rather tell you about WATER ON MARS than about the debacle in Iraq and a report that is finally telling it like it is.
p.s. which, after reading the headlines about what was in the report, did you just feel like saying "no shit?!" How did the rest of the country know that we were losing the war, that we needed to talk to the neighboring countries instead of making bigger enemies with them, that we have failed in our accomplishments and were losing the war in every aspect...how is it that most of us already knew that yet it took a 150+ page report to finally get through to our moron President?
1 Comments:
In reading this, Elvis comes to mind. The lyrics "a little less conversation, a more action please..."
seams fitting from whatever view point you would like to come from.
On one hand you have too much conversation(the report) and not enough action(what the hell are we going to do now that we have admitted we fucked up). On the other hand when we went into the war we didnt have enough talk...and too much action.
When can we as a country find a happy medium??? There are a billion studies that say compromise leads to happiness.
Then again what do I know. I graduated from St Cloud State with a degree in Mixology.
By Chicagoboy21, At 9:09 AM
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