68 posts tagged “msm”

Some Grey Bloke has got it right with the swine ’flu: that it is the Susan Boyle of illnesses. It hasn’t done much, but everyone with an internet connection knows about it.

Swine ’flu was long predicted by the Doctor Who writers. Except that time it was caused by Daleks.

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This has got to be one of those bad journalism moments:

CNN on Fiat–Opel

Analysts say its small-car technology can help Chrysler, known for its minivans and Hummer line. In the past five years, Fiat has been able to regain market share in Europe with its economy fuel-saving cars as well as its luxury line, Alpha Romero.

   I’m sure Chrysler would love to know it owns Hummer and have extra headaches about what to do with that brand, and do Alpha Romeros have anything to do with actor Cesar Romero?

I rather liked Craig Ferguson’s jokes at last year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. It was a shame that his fellow media colleagues didn’t know a good laugh when they heard it.
   I have found this with political humour in the United States. I have had political jokes fall well flat, and this is due to the politeness of Americans. Democrats don’t want to offend Republicans in the audience, and Republicans don’t want to offend Democrats in the audience. Net result: little laughter.
   The only times one can get a bit more extreme is in areas which are staunchly one way or another (e.g. then-Sen. Obama at the DNC and Gov. Palin at the RNC).
   He dissed The New York Times as much as Fox News, Vice-President Cheney as much as Sen. Clinton, Bill O’Reilly as much as Keith Olbermann, and he even had a go with the media in general. However, I loved his closing which was a great way to bring everyone together. Also notice that Mr Ferguson got a standing ovation.

Welcome to Brown’s Britain.
   And one copper who might give so many of the good ones at the Met a black mark.
   I know there were some difficulties with protesters and I assume the police officer’s judgement was coloured by that. One would hope, however, that the training would keep the macho bollocks in check.

We are all sick of news about Paris Hilton, I would imagine, and wondered who would knock her off her perch.
   On the TV news, I noticed that an item about Gov. Sarah Palin’s grandson preceded one on Paris Hilton in Australia.
   You now have your answer. It’s Sarah Palin.

I am glad to know that the murder of Adam Walsh has been confirmed as solved in the US.
   John Walsh’s press statements yesterday were carried here on network television, a nod to his global celebrity status.
   Mr Walsh turned his anger over his six-year-old son’s murder into a productive search for suspects across the US—and his efforts are credited for helping solve hundreds of cases.
   While Fox’s motives for showing Walsh’s America’s Most Wanted stem from the tabloid journalism that made it infamous in Australia, the UK and the US, the benefits of the show have outweighed the negatives considerably, in my mind. Selling it on as entertainment might be looked upon less charitably.
   I feel for this man. I do not know what emotions he went through when his son went missing, and then when young Adam’s severed head was found. I hope we never do learn those emotions first-hand. But I think we all understand loss and anger.
   Not all of us are as great as John Walsh in being able to turn that into a force for good.
   I also have to act in an un-Christian way because I find a child murderer’s actions disgusting and it is terribly hard to forgive a bastard nonce, even when it’s not my own kin upon whom such a horrible act has been committed.
   But God bless the Walsh family, for the suffering they have been through and for their positive contributions to crime-fighting.
   I hope many other families find justice.

After the local post office was done over two days ago, by two men, both armed (yes, the MSM got it wrong by saying three men, one armed) there are now some changes.
   A security guard is now posted at the door and the entrance to the postbox lobby is now permanently locked, with a display stand in the way.
   But statistically, lightning does not strike twice at the same place.
   I hate to use this example but a nutter wanting to repeat “a 9-11” would find it awfully hard to have done so on September 12, 2001. It is why, rightly, security forces have been on alert with other modes of transport. The use of an airplane the day after for such a purpose would have been very, very unlikely.
   I can understand the security guard, not so much because the Kilbirnie Post Shop, which has never been robbed at gunpoint since the current building was erected in the 1980s, is still a target, but staff may now feel uneasy. If it gives them comfort, then the gentleman standing guard outside is doing something good.
   The custom with the outside postbox lobby door has, lately, been to lock it. In fact, the lock does crazy things. Sometimes it locks during office hours and opens outside them. But as long as legitimate users have the code, then permanently locking the outside door but allowing internal access is not a big deal.
   All I know is that two men changed the way the post office operates. It’s a very small example of how fear can alter behaviours.
   And, really, I don’t think we should change those behaviours. Those bastards are not coming back, no one was injured, and the psychological scars are probably—though I am no expert—going to amount to a few days’ or weeks’ insomnia. The crooks probably discovered that the post office is not a very good target, with the judder bars around, and only two conceivable exits for motor cars. Kilbirnie residents are on alert anyway for suspicious behaviour: a known unknown, in the words of former Sec. Rumsfeld.
   But if I were at any other bank in any other area, then I would be worried, because the chances of those being hit have risen.

More media bias? In People’s report on the failure of Rosie O’Donnell’s variety show (big surprise there), it noted:

The night was dominated by an ABC televised interview with Barack and Michelle Obama by O’Donnell's View nemesis Barbara Walters.

Um, no it wasn’t. The network and programme that won the evening in the US were CBS and its horrid Criminal Minds. And dominated is a strong word—especially when it’s untrue.
   Someone needs to tell People that Barack Obama has already won the presidential election and it can stop campaigning to make him look good. Many people think he’s doing a pretty good job of that himself.