man i hate the morning news

Zaskar · 11-20-2003, 06:35 PM

i was watching the news. and honestly...fuck the news. seriously. i watch two stations as i'm flippen through. on one station i got cbn the 700 club or whatever doing a story on gay marriages, all cool right. whatever. so they're given the fight for gay marriages a little air time and they're tellin more bout how they're pushin to get it legalized or ammend the constitution to decide once or for all what a marriage is to end the controversy. not like we havent heard this story before...then the news commentator comes on gives a 5 min speech on how america was founded on christian ethics (i forgot how anyone in america is now suddenly christian) and how wrong gay marriages are (you can be pro or anti, its all cool) and then says to call the network for BUMPER STICKER denouncing them. Get this...a news reporter...on public television..on a national news station...using NETWORK MONEY/AIRTIME to tell a nation of people how against it he is and how everyone should be christian. Then tells them how he's got fuckin bumpers stickers for people if they call in. Throws the number/website/email deal up there.

on another station. this one being CNN with everyones good buddy WOLF BLITZER REPORTS. we get him explaining an anti-globalization demonstration in miami florida. i mean...not surprising right. so it isnt like we havent seen a million of these before. not only are they tear gasing arresting and having huge rally gear like....200 long lines of these rally dudes in front of these protestors who are just illen an chillen (seriously from the footage while they were reporting it was a sunday school picnic with alot of signs)....but they're saying how they tear gased them and repressed them because an officer was pushed and fell back and "hurt his neck". i forgot how having 200 armoured police officers in front of a peaceful protest didnt remind people a little bit of how they are being controlled. so one dude gets pushed. they're pullen him off and everybody gets teared gased and in the midst of it some guy gets kicked in the head so they arrested some people. then the police dude comes on TV saying how it's under control gives the story bout one dude getting pushed and another kicked then blames it on anarchists and how they're just there to fight for the sake of fighting? really. for fucks sake. i forgot how it was a whole political belief but apparently it's now another label for people to watch out for. why didnt i like the second broadcast? because they took a crack at these obviously peaceful protestors not only by tear gassing them but insulting their motives on CNN and didn't even interview one of them to let their side of it be heard.

my overall beef? bias reporting. the first especially. since when do reporters have opinions and since when does a network support one or the other. they should strictly be there for the facts. leave the opinions to everyone else. dumb fuckers.

After all this....a report on a bombing in iraq then 2 more bombings this week in Turkey

My coffee tastes good though
Cam.

Putty · 11-20-2003, 07:12 PM

Everytime there is a bombing, I look at what else is going on in the news. Look at the big geopolitical picture and see who benefits.

Look at today. Bush is getting protesting in the UK touting his war, well next thing you know, British targets in Turkey get blowed up. Why? Make Bush look right in the eyes of the British public. See we need this war, your stuff is getting blowed up!

Yesterday, it was Jacko molesting kids that took the headlines, not the fact that the Brits are pissed about W coming to see them.

CNN - Contains No News.

Aljazeera pulls no punches. They are calling the war a Military Occupation of Iraq.

Perle admitted today that the whole war is illegal, but that it would be immoral to leave Hussein alone, so they had to do it. Peale talking about morality is like an eskimo talking about a sand storm.

My coffee is also very good.

Lady Gravity · 11-20-2003, 07:14 PM

i hate watching the news - it's all slanted
is there anyone that tells the truth?

time for another cup of joe

Putty · 11-20-2003, 07:18 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Lady Gravity

is there anyone that tells the truth?

No! That is why you have to get information from different sources. BBC is pretty good. Even the CBC is more open than most of the US news outlets. Most of the Arab news channels are just as bad as CNN, just slanted the other way. Read both, the truth is probably somewhere in the middle, or nowhere.

Zaskar · 11-20-2003, 07:18 PM

yea man i made such a mean pot of coffee today. and added some intense flavour hazelnut cream stuff.

bush asked to have central london shut down completely then got pissed at the mayor for saying not a chance then turned around and told people that he's glad the protestors can make their displays because it's democracy at work. the right to protest and show opinions. hahahaha my ass. he tried to have it so they wouldnt show on TV.

this was more about the fact that the network/reporter were so against the gay marriage thing. i dont think its their place to take sides. also with the protestors. it's not the news place to take sides and only show the one "righteous" side

and yes the war is illegal. my question is why is Bush not being taken before the UN? morality is all a question of beliefs. and those are up to the aggressor as to what is "right" and "wrong". I thought the UN was supposed to be the middle guy. There are enough countries against it, why don't they bring Bush before a UN council and ask him why he violated treaties they were a founding member for creating....

Bryan · 11-20-2003, 07:18 PM

damn, i come on here in the morning to enjoy my coffee and read about some mtb shit, all in an effort to get away from the news......

mmmm my coffee is good.back to the gear and shore page i go

Putty · 11-20-2003, 07:19 PM

because before the war broke out, the us made the UN a complete joke.

Lady Gravity · 11-20-2003, 07:19 PM

OMG stop the presses...bighitter posted in NBR

Bryan · 11-20-2003, 07:20 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Zaskar
and added some intense flavour hazelnut cream stuff.

french vanilla is sooo where it's at.

Zaskar · 11-20-2003, 07:24 PM

the problem is that 50,75,100 years ago there wasnt really much of a news network. things couldnt get pumped out like they can today with satellites internet radio and television. people weren't so connected to the news. i think part of the reason things are thrown at us so much is to keep a sense of urgency. people would know shit is getting blown up in Iraq if they didnt tell you daily and show you pictures of burnt out cars and chaos on tstreets dogs picking peoples out of rubble. Instead they show us so we keep seein the progress though we couldnt care less if someone just randomly told us on the street. I think television is the biggest purveyor of this kind of media. Imagery. People don't want to know, they want to see and I think underneath people wanna see shit blown up whoever it is. Just so they can see that theres something actually going on, it kinda clicks a mental que that ya some shit really is goin down. Wasn't good for us but at least somethings happening over there.

As soon as people forget about the everyday they forget it ever happened. Look at Afghanistan. How much news coverage or anti-afghanistan or anti-american sentiment yoiu hear about that lately? Now compare it to Iraq. Troops in both...yet the media focuses on Iraq, so do we. The urgency of the NOW lets us forget about the THEN. So we see tanks getting blown up by terrorists it moves our minds off whats goin on elsewhere.

NV73 · 11-20-2003, 07:28 PM

700 Club is far from being news. It's a religous platform from which far-right (dare I say fundamentalist?) Christians skew the news events of the moment. Media watchdogs think Fundamentalist Islamic mosques in the far corners of the world are a threat? They should to pay attention to the 700 Club; there's some crazy rhetoric coming from that show. Not that CNN is much better....

Cheers to the Java.

Purecanadianhoney · 11-20-2003, 07:29 PM

I like the way the US talks about being defenders of freedom and then when the fucking Dixie Chicks speak out against the war in Iraq, people burn their cd's. US foreign policy *scares* the hell out of me!

Also, whatever happened to the anthrax issue. Funny how that just ended. No more coverage.

For alternative sources of media, the New Internationalist offers a 'southern' perspective (http://www.newint.org/) and the Manchester Guardian Weekly usually has some great articles.

I guess with media it is important to remember that there is no truth, and what your getting is just one slice of a larger pie and that it is up to you to fill in the rest of the pie with all the other slices.

in case anyone is interested-here are the top 10 censored stories: http://www.projectcensored.org/publi...004/index.html

My coffee is Organic Rainforest, picked up yesterday hot off the roaster at the Cowboy Coffee warehouse.

gearwh0re · 11-20-2003, 07:32 PM

i don't know why, i know it is my fault, but i hate people who drink coffee...i need to get my head checked i guess

Bryan · 11-20-2003, 07:34 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by gearwh0re
i don't know why, i know it is my fault, but i hate people who drink coffee...i need to get my head checked i guess

thats ok, us coffee drinkers hate those that don't...... it's all good.

gearwh0re · 11-20-2003, 07:42 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by bighitter
thats ok, us coffee drinkers hate those that don't...... it's all good.

it all balances, doesn't

11-20-2003, 06:35 PM	#1
Zaskar back in the ussr Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 7,718 Rep Power: 6312	man i hate the morning news i was watching the news. and honestly...fuck the news. seriously. i watch two stations as i'm flippen through. on one station i got cbn the 700 club or whatever doing a story on gay marriages, all cool right. whatever. so they're given the fight for gay marriages a little air time and they're tellin more bout how they're pushin to get it legalized or ammend the constitution to decide once or for all what a marriage is to end the controversy. not like we havent heard this story before...then the news commentator comes on gives a 5 min speech on how america was founded on christian ethics (i forgot how anyone in america is now suddenly christian) and how wrong gay marriages are (you can be pro or anti, its all cool) and then says to call the network for BUMPER STICKER denouncing them. Get this...a news reporter...on public television..on a national news station...using NETWORK MONEY/AIRTIME to tell a nation of people how against it he is and how everyone should be christian. Then tells them how he's got fuckin bumpers stickers for people if they call in. Throws the number/website/email deal up there. on another station. this one being CNN with everyones good buddy WOLF BLITZER REPORTS. we get him explaining an anti-globalization demonstration in miami florida. i mean...not surprising right. so it isnt like we havent seen a million of these before. not only are they tear gasing arresting and having huge rally gear like....200 long lines of these rally dudes in front of these protestors who are just illen an chillen (seriously from the footage while they were reporting it was a sunday school picnic with alot of signs)....but they're saying how they tear gased them and repressed them because an officer was pushed and fell back and "hurt his neck". i forgot how having 200 armoured police officers in front of a peaceful protest didnt remind people a little bit of how they are being controlled. so one dude gets pushed. they're pullen him off and everybody gets teared gased and in the midst of it some guy gets kicked in the head so they arrested some people. then the police dude comes on TV saying how it's under control gives the story bout one dude getting pushed and another kicked then blames it on anarchists and how they're just there to fight for the sake of fighting? really. for fucks sake. i forgot how it was a whole political belief but apparently it's now another label for people to watch out for. why didnt i like the second broadcast? because they took a crack at these obviously peaceful protestors not only by tear gassing them but insulting their motives on CNN and didn't even interview one of them to let their side of it be heard. my overall beef? bias reporting. the first especially. since when do reporters have opinions and since when does a network support one or the other. they should strictly be there for the facts. leave the opinions to everyone else. dumb fuckers. After all this....a report on a bombing in iraq then 2 more bombings this week in Turkey My coffee tastes good though Cam.

11-20-2003, 07:12 PM	#2
Putty richard cephalus Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: is my home. Posts: 9,537 Rep Power: 865912	Everytime there is a bombing, I look at what else is going on in the news. Look at the big geopolitical picture and see who benefits. Look at today. Bush is getting protesting in the UK touting his war, well next thing you know, British targets in Turkey get blowed up. Why? Make Bush look right in the eyes of the British public. See we need this war, your stuff is getting blowed up! Yesterday, it was Jacko molesting kids that took the headlines, not the fact that the Brits are pissed about W coming to see them. CNN - Contains No News. Aljazeera pulls no punches. They are calling the war a Military Occupation of Iraq. Perle admitted today that the whole war is illegal, but that it would be immoral to leave Hussein alone, so they had to do it. Peale talking about morality is like an eskimo talking about a sand storm. My coffee is also very good. __________________ Well, well I been movin' down to Florida. And I'm gonna bowl me a perfect game. Well I'm gonna cut off my leg down in Florida, child. And I'm gonna dance one-legged off in the rain.

11-20-2003, 07:19 PM	#7
Putty richard cephalus Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: is my home. Posts: 9,537 Rep Power: 865912	because before the war broke out, the us made the UN a complete joke. __________________ Well, well I been movin' down to Florida. And I'm gonna bowl me a perfect game. Well I'm gonna cut off my leg down in Florida, child. And I'm gonna dance one-legged off in the rain.

11-20-2003, 07:29 PM	#12
Purecanadianhoney Is that a job description? Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Band camp Posts: 2,067 Rep Power: 844971	I like the way the US talks about being defenders of freedom and then when the fucking Dixie Chicks speak out against the war in Iraq, people burn their cd's. US foreign policy scares the hell out of me! Also, whatever happened to the anthrax issue. Funny how that just ended. No more coverage. For alternative sources of media, the New Internationalist offers a 'southern' perspective (http://www.newint.org/) and the Manchester Guardian Weekly usually has some great articles. I guess with media it is important to remember that there is no truth, and what your getting is just one slice of a larger pie and that it is up to you to fill in the rest of the pie with all the other slices. in case anyone is interested-here are the top 10 censored stories: http://www.projectcensored.org/publi...004/index.html My coffee is Organic Rainforest, picked up yesterday hot off the roaster at the Cowboy Coffee warehouse. __________________ www.strength101.ca Goin' Down?

11-20-2003, 07:32 PM	#13
gearwh0re Registered User Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: meh (heeco) Posts: 19,054 Rep Power: 198005	i don't know why, i know it is my fault, but i hate people who drink coffee...i need to get my head checked i guess __________________ turn off sigs...it will change your life

11-20-2003, 07:14 PM	#3
Lady Gravity meow? Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Heaven on earth for biking Posts: 18,298 Rep Power: 4650292	i hate watching the news - it's all slanted is there anyone that tells the truth? time for another cup of joe

11-20-2003, 07:18 PM	#5
Zaskar back in the ussr Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 7,718 Rep Power: 6312	yea man i made such a mean pot of coffee today. and added some intense flavour hazelnut cream stuff. bush asked to have central london shut down completely then got pissed at the mayor for saying not a chance then turned around and told people that he's glad the protestors can make their displays because it's democracy at work. the right to protest and show opinions. hahahaha my ass. he tried to have it so they wouldnt show on TV. this was more about the fact that the network/reporter were so against the gay marriage thing. i dont think its their place to take sides. also with the protestors. it's not the news place to take sides and only show the one "righteous" side and yes the war is illegal. my question is why is Bush not being taken before the UN? morality is all a question of beliefs. and those are up to the aggressor as to what is "right" and "wrong". I thought the UN was supposed to be the middle guy. There are enough countries against it, why don't they bring Bush before a UN council and ask him why he violated treaties they were a founding member for creating....

11-20-2003, 07:18 PM	#6
Bryan bighitter who? Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: not close enough to the riding Posts: 6,291 Rep Power: 10604291	damn, i come on here in the morning to enjoy my coffee and read about some mtb shit, all in an effort to get away from the news...... mmmm my coffee is good.back to the gear and shore page i go

11-20-2003, 07:24 PM	#10
Zaskar back in the ussr Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 7,718 Rep Power: 6312	the problem is that 50,75,100 years ago there wasnt really much of a news network. things couldnt get pumped out like they can today with satellites internet radio and television. people weren't so connected to the news. i think part of the reason things are thrown at us so much is to keep a sense of urgency. people would know shit is getting blown up in Iraq if they didnt tell you daily and show you pictures of burnt out cars and chaos on tstreets dogs picking peoples out of rubble. Instead they show us so we keep seein the progress though we couldnt care less if someone just randomly told us on the street. I think television is the biggest purveyor of this kind of media. Imagery. People don't want to know, they want to see and I think underneath people wanna see shit blown up whoever it is. Just so they can see that theres something actually going on, it kinda clicks a mental que that ya some shit really is goin down. Wasn't good for us but at least somethings happening over there. As soon as people forget about the everyday they forget it ever happened. Look at Afghanistan. How much news coverage or anti-afghanistan or anti-american sentiment yoiu hear about that lately? Now compare it to Iraq. Troops in both...yet the media focuses on Iraq, so do we. The urgency of the NOW lets us forget about the THEN. So we see tanks getting blown up by terrorists it moves our minds off whats goin on elsewhere.

11-20-2003, 07:28 PM	#11
NV73 . Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Back of the net. Posts: 535 Rep Power: 39385	700 Club is far from being news. It's a religous platform from which far-right (dare I say fundamentalist?) Christians skew the news events of the moment. Media watchdogs think Fundamentalist Islamic mosques in the far corners of the world are a threat? They should to pay attention to the 700 Club; there's some crazy rhetoric coming from that show. Not that CNN is much better.... Cheers to the Java.

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