So this girl’s missing in Aruba, and it’s all over CNN. And I just don’t give a shit. The *only* time someone going missing is news is when publicizing that person’s missing-ness might help figure out what’s going on, and *only* to the extent that it helps, relative to the worth of publicizing other stories. Jennifer Wilbanks should never, ever, ever have superceded the Downing Street Memo. This girl in Aruba shouldn’t be superceding say, anything. And neither should fucking Michael Jackson. But, even though the media swore up and down after 9/11 that they wouldn’t get bogged down in crap the way they did with Gary Condit, and ignore the actual *news*, we should have all known that laziness trumps integrity.
nice job, media.
You should read (if you haven’t already): http://www.cjrdaily.org/archives/001570.asp
And note their statement:
“Around 20 minutes in, CNNI paused briefly to do its best imitation of CNN itself, touching on the Michael Jackson trial and the latest Attractive White Woman Gone Missing — Natalee Holloway, who disappeared in Aruba on a class trip.”
I hope “Attractive White Woman Gone Missing” or as I like to say, AWWGM, enters the lexicon.
A_B
“Jennifer Wilbanks should never, ever, ever have superceded the Downing Street Memo.”
No kidding! It’s a real shame that so many of the news networks in the U.S. are owned by one of the big-seven conglomerates, and that those conglomerates are military contractors and Bush supporters. ::sigh::