Jan 13 2009
What is the media thinking?
I don’t know what it is, but the media has really been annoying me lately (this isn’t true, they usually annoy me, which is why I usually get my news from Fark, but that’s another story). Recently though, their inanity has reached new heights. A lot of really horrible things are happening in the world from Israel’s relentless bombing of the West Bank which is killing thousands of innocent people, starvation, a standoff with Iran, the killing of nearly 500,000 people in Iraq during our massively inappropriate war, the American economy is in shambles, and global warming is on the rise (as evidenced by our 80 degree day this January the 13th here in San Francisco). Not only that but we’re about to instate a new president of the United States, one that will hopefully fix a lot of the bad things that have happened over the last eight years. And, Obama’s administration has basically already taken control of the government and will be going full-steam next Tuesday when he is inaugurated, which I really like. Way to take charge Barack!
Yes, all of these very important things are happening, as well as many others that I haven’t listed here, and our very way of life is in serious jeopary. But, what topic has the media all in a frenzy? What topic has all of the major networks devoting entire teams, massive amounts of air time, the soliciation of expert interpretations, and has network executives peeing on themselves over? That’s right folks, the single most important news story of 2009 so far is…. drum roll please…. THE KIND OF FREAKIN’ DOG THAT OBAMA IS GOING TO BUY HIS CHILDREN!!!!! This is quite possibly the most inane display of misappropriation of resources and the biggest waste of time I’ve ever seen in my life. I’m mean seriously, who the hell cares whether they are going to get a Poruguese Water Dog or a Labradoodle?? I mean really!! A Google search for “the first dog obama” yields, count them, 3,440,000 results. The Today show this morning did an entire segment on the two possible breeds and how either of them is, “such a wonderful family breed”. I mean, really. Who is getting rich off of this? Someone must be, because I think I’d rather see a segment on watching paint dry.
The only other side of this that I can think of is that some executive somewhere, or some white house press secretary thought that focusing on the first family’s first dog would somehow take America’s mind off of the dismal current situation, either that or it would allow the world to identify more with the first family, but I still don’t give a crap. And, I can’t imagine that Obama feels any differently, I know it would annoy the crap out of me (obviously). Anyway, sorry for the rant. I’ll write something plesant next time, but this was really getting to me and thought I would share with you.
Happy puppy hunting.
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