E Partridge's article.....

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He's right about the vacuity of local news. I haven't watched it by choice, for over 20 years: panderers, voyeurs, idiots with the 'ability' to read what's put in front of them, while thay have NO CLUE about what they're saying, ensconced in their media coccoons. I worked at the polls as a Democratic poll-watcher. We had a guy who was the lead 'reporter' for one of the Major local stations. Every time, EVERY TIME, he asked the same questions about HOW TO VOTE. This isn't some career-lengthening trait that demands that he know what's going on to be fully informed, but, what seemed to me, STUPIDITY.
As far as network'news' it's been at least 3 years since I watched that, and I used to tape it and index it for future historians. Cable NEVERNEVERNEVERNEVER, I ALWAYS saw through the hype and phoniness, even when it was a somewhat benign creation, just designed to make money (Which it does). The recent additions are even worse (I guess). I can't imagine what my fears for the future would be like if I did watch the 'news'

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1. Sounds good...

can you give a link?

[realFedUp]

2. If It Burns, It Earns

on home page of DU:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/03/11/15_burns.html

If It Burns, It Earns
November 15, 2003
By Ernest Partridge, The Crisis Papers

Watch a TV report of a distant conflagration, and you will hear meaningless names of unfamiliar places. Are the reports accurate? How would you know? Those place names are just empty words to you. But golly gee!, just look at those flames and all that smoke! And looky-there, that fire sure flattened that house, didn’t it?

Now that pretty blonde reporter is going to interview the owners of that late house. I’ll bet they will tell us they are sorry they lost the house.

Zap to the next channel. They are going to interview a fire-fighter. Do you ‘spose he’ll tell us that he’s bone tired, and that he’s “never seen anything like it”?

Your on-the-spot local TV news team in action!

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