my letter to editor (college paper)

[old blue]

This is in response to a good editorial criticizing overcoverage of Aruba.


To the Daily:

Jesse Singal's allegation that tv news is uninformative is a bit off the mark. One can glean all the information one pleases from such outlets as CNN and Fox News, provided one has learned to calibrate the day's reporting.

One rule of thumb I find useful: the hotter the white girl, the more vile the Bush Administration crime going unreported. Take "The Runaway Bride" -- good bone structure, obviously keeps in shape. Particularly for those partial to brunettes, hourly updates of her saga were more than enough to keep the viewers from having to hear about documents, leaked from the highest levels of British government, that appear to implicate the Bush administration in a conspiracy to deceive the American people and Congress into supporting an illegal invasion of Iraq.

But now that the"Downing Street Memo" has finally surfaced in US media (a good month after its first publication in UK papers), we are reassured by Republican political analysts and news editors that the now demonstrable fraud for which over 1700 of our soldiers have died is "old news." Perhaps that is why they saved the blond girl for June, when concern about the Guantanimo Bay facility and its accordance with international law is now bi-partisan. As long as we have to watch live news feeds coming from the Caribbean, damsels in distress are certainly more palatable than bearded men chained in fetal positions and covered in their own vomit, not to mention the company we keep by allowing such measures.

None of this should be reason to change the channel,
though. Under court order, the government will be forced next week to
make public previously unseen pictures and video footage from the Abu
Ghraib prison. I am confident we can look forward to a veritable summer babefest!


I haven't sent it yet. I welcome comments/criticism.

[donco6]

1. That's good!

The "summer babefest" is particularly appropos.

[KurtNYC]

2. That's great

Made me picture a quiz like:

Match the Babe to the Real News she distracted from...

Chandra Levy Florida-gate 2000

Aruba girl Downing Street Minutes

Runaway Bride Bush poll numbers

etc etc

[zbdent]

3. Should have mentioned how cute

Jessica Lynch was . . .

[old blue]

4. sent it

[4_TN_TITANS]

5. Excellent.........

As we get closer and closer to impeachment, it's going to be like a Miss Universe Pagent everyday! Cool..... }(