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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums5 Pathetic Failures of the American Media This Week
1. In praise of bald and gray old guys who rank women.Esquire and its ASME award-winning writer Tom Junod win the weeks "Oops, My Sexist Underwear is Showing" award for their In praise of 42-year-old women article (illustrated with Sofia Vergara in a black maillot with her legs bent and Photoshopped into perverse plastic doll-like curves, like Barbies).
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2. Poor Israeli zoo elephants.
The brilliant PR machine that is Israel reached for the bleachers but slammed a foul ball when someone provided the world with video and pictures of an Israeli zoo elephant shielding its baby from air raid sirens. Huffington Post, Buzzfeed and the Daily Mail were among the Western media outlets that picked up the photo.
Awesome cuteness, Tel Aviv!
Not one of them bothered to run the video beside any imagery of one of the dead Gaza mothers (at last count 10) lying on top of one of the dead Gaza children (last count, at least 20). None of the articles even included words to the effect that there are human Gaza mothers hovering over their human children as the ferocious Israeli assault on Gaza continues.
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3. Brownie to the border rescue!
Big thanks to Rush Limbaugh for noting that Fox News trotted out Michael Heckuva Job, Brownie Brown to commentate on the refugee crisis this week. Yes. They. Did.
That border-state brown people tsunami thats freaking out the nativists really calls for the best minds of our generation, and that includes the notoriously effective public servant, Bushs legendary Katrina-FEMA director.
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5 Pathetic Failures of the American Media This Week (Original Post)
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yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)1. Why would they put the Gaza mothers in a story about elephants
That doesn't even make sense. Perhaps that was going to be a Gaza Mather story for later on.
Niceguy1
(2,467 posts)2. maybe the mothers
In gaza should turn in the people firing rockets from their neighborhood. ......