Let's stop referring to news people by their names, there's no reason to

[RB TexLa]

do so. They read a piece of paper. This can be done with a computer generated voice, the person is not needed and therefore useless. You listen to the national weather radio you get the information from a computer generated voice it's the same information one of these people could read, you still get the information. There is no reason to continue to treat them as if and refer to them as if they are human beings.

[Blue-Jay]

1. O.....kay...

[warrens]

2. Well, they usually have better hair than computers

I listen to NPR and watch NOW and a few of the Sunday gabfests. I can't tolerate those talking heads. And although I was optimistic about Nightline, it's just fucking awful now.

[Poll_Blind]

3. Whether or not they are human beings is a judgment best left to...

...an evaluation of their actions as individuals. Maybe I've seen "Little Big Man" too many times not to be sensitive to the use of that term. While I agree, on the face of it, that a machine can read the news (*cough*Anna Nova*cough*), the worst of the propagandists-cum-ersatz journalists is represented by their unscripted commentary bookending the scripted news they read. And this they do as individuals with agendas who should not be protected behind the aegis of whatever propaganda they may read, whether they disagree with it or not.

  For these things, chiefly, I disagree with your reduction: They are individuals making choices and should be recognized as such. Roy Cohn was just another part of McCarthy's anatomy but as an individual his choices made more effective that terrible scourge.

PB

[sweetheart]

4. The nameless mother of all things...

Indeed, nothing has a name, and we are just wind, reflected waves
of thought already spun up in some deep social narrative, that the
theme of our posts, our drama is sung and acted out by letters on
a stage, and then is heard no more.

Without names, we are pure knowledge sharing a moment together of bliss,
where unity unites us beyond words, and i agree that names are indeed
a distraction, but until the sematic enlightenment of humankind metastasizes
in to something substantial, a day job, wink! indeed, a name in a world
of names, authorized and given a jobrole to eek a living, and for that,
we trade in our mystery for the linear progression of the corporate war machine.

[annabanana]

6. If you wrote this,

I would surely like a copy of everything else you've written....

[sweetheart]

11. i did

Thank you.

It was a laotzu shakespeare ghost mix, that the originals did better,
just less modern; or postmodern..

[ThomWV]

5. My News Comes From Olberman and Stewart - Who It Is Does Matter!

Delivery is everything.

[quinnox]

7. how do we know they are human to begin with?

:tinfoilhat:

[EST]

8. While I share your sentiment and disdain for these chattering

hairdos, I must disagree with the assumption about the efficacy of information exchange.

Information, whether correct or wrong, important or valueless, is not particularly memorable, depending on the motivation of the receiver. The deliverer of such info has a strong impact on the receptivity of the recipient--witness Hitler and any number of similar propagandists.
The perceived value, the part that people are willing to pay for, is in the delivery. The huge profits reaped by mega broadcasting should be ample evidence of this point.
They know where the pot of gold is.

I don't think these turkeys deserve the respect, let alone the paychecks, laid on them by an adoring public and fawning media wannabes, but, like you, I have a committed audience, most of the time, of just one--me.

[KansDem]

9. And you won't have to waste a lot of time making computers look thinner.

"Fat" computer:
:(

"Thin" computer:
:)

Are you paying attention, CBS?

[Jim__]

10. Actually we can say that about lots of jobs.

In today's booming economy, people are becoming superfluous.