Comments on: Interesting http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/04/09/54/interesting-8/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:27:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Rob_in_Hawaii http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/04/09/54/interesting-8/#comment-134165 Rob_in_Hawaii Sat, 05 Jan 2008 08:13:55 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/04/09/54/interesting-8/#comment-134165 When I was working out at the gym yesterday I glanced up at the TV every now and then as the talking heads on CNN blathered on and on. Shakespeare described it best: "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." When I got home I logged on to the usual sites to get some useful information. When I was working out at the gym yesterday I glanced up at the TV every now and then as the talking heads on CNN blathered on and on. Shakespeare described it best: “A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

When I got home I logged on to the usual sites to get some useful information.

]]> By: Ron http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/04/09/54/interesting-8/#comment-134134 Ron Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:41:16 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/04/09/54/interesting-8/#comment-134134 Like serial catowner, I wouldn't trust coporate media to tell me the time of day. Like serial catowner, I wouldn’t trust coporate media to tell me the time of day.

]]> By: Rene ala Carte http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/04/09/54/interesting-8/#comment-134133 Rene ala Carte Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:18:15 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/04/09/54/interesting-8/#comment-134133 We don't even put the tv on for this kind of coverage. Information on the internet seems more accurate and more diverse. There is such a partisan bias by the "stars" on the tube they become unwatchable. This includes all the "reporters" who give updates and spot coverage. My wife said this morning that she doesn't care about the poll results, but rather why a candidate is attracting or losing support. Now, that might require some real reporting, and the folks covering Iowa just didn't seem up to it. Forget the pretty faces (seems like the same old ones everywhere), report the story! We don’t even put the tv on for this kind of coverage.

Information on the internet seems more accurate and more diverse. There is such a partisan bias by the “stars” on the tube they become unwatchable. This includes all the “reporters” who give updates and spot coverage.

My wife said this morning that she doesn’t care about the poll results, but rather why a candidate is attracting or losing support. Now, that might require some real reporting, and the folks covering Iowa just didn’t seem up to it.

Forget the pretty faces (seems like the same old ones everywhere), report the story!

]]> By: JJ http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/04/09/54/interesting-8/#comment-134130 JJ Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:00:09 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/04/09/54/interesting-8/#comment-134130 You're absolutely right, Susan. My habits have changed so completely that I didn't even think of this while I was doing it. That is, it never even occurred to me to turn on the TV. You’re absolutely right, Susan. My habits have changed so completely that I didn’t even think of this while I was doing it. That is, it never even occurred to me to turn on the TV.

]]> By: serial catowner http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/04/09/54/interesting-8/#comment-134123 serial catowner Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:17:08 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/04/09/54/interesting-8/#comment-134123 As with any major event, television is the last place you would turn to learn what's happening. The local cable news is so lame they tape one weather report in the morning and repeat it twice an hour for ten hours- even while we experience major flooding that closes many roads and, in my case, turned a ten-minute drive into a two-hour workaround. Totally clueless. As with any major event, television is the last place you would turn to learn what’s happening.

The local cable news is so lame they tape one weather report in the morning and repeat it twice an hour for ten hours- even while we experience major flooding that closes many roads and, in my case, turned a ten-minute drive into a two-hour workaround. Totally clueless.

]]> By: donviti http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/04/09/54/interesting-8/#comment-134116 donviti Fri, 04 Jan 2008 14:24:57 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2008/01/04/09/54/interesting-8/#comment-134116 we live blogged at our place and pretty much made fun of the talking heads the whole time... I look to them for comedic value and to decipher their partisan coded phrases these days. we live blogged at our place and pretty much made fun of the talking heads the whole time…

I look to them for comedic value and to decipher their partisan coded phrases these days.

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