Been wondering 'Just how sorry ass is the media?' This may answer your question

[struggle4progress]

You probably saw that buuullshiiit story about the UN appointing an ambassador to greet any space aliens

Happily for the real world, the Guardian eventually came along for clean-up with a poop-scooper: see http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/sep/27/un-alien-ambassador-mazlan-othman

I thought I might make a list of media outlets that shoveled that buuullshiiit at the public, but when I realized how long the list would be, I decided I'd like to do some other things this week

Sure, it's no surprise that Weekly World News covered the story. It's not so strange to hear Rush Limbaugh repeat garbage like this either. The Telegraph? Well, this is exactly why I don't like to link to the Telegraph. Rick Lowry in the NY Post and in the National Review? Yeah, William F's gone, and today the National Review is about as tabloid as the NY Post or the Daily Mail. CBS News ... TIME ... the UK's Independent

This is baaad fuuuckin neeews in many ways. Once upon a time, there were gradations here. Now it's all smashed flat -- everything is at the level of Weekly World News





Asian Tribune
UN appoints Malaysian astrophysicist as ‘space ambassador” for ET contact
Tue, 2010-09-28 04:40 — editor
http://www.asiantribune.com/news/2010/09/28/un-appoints-malaysian-astrophysicist-%E2%80%98space-ambassador%E2%80%9D-et-contact

CBS
September 27, 2010 12:42 PM
United Nations Appointing Ambassador to Alien World?
Posted by Edward Moyer
... According to numerous reports, Othman will be named as the UN ambassador to extraterrestrials, if and when they contact humanity. The post will require approval from UN scientific advisory committees and the General Assembly ... http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-501465_162-20017713-501465.html

Firedoglake
Lisa Derrick Monday September 27, 2010 3:50 pm
Food for Thought: United Nations Names Official Space Alien Liaison
http://lafiga.firedoglake.com/2010/09/27/food-for-thought-united-nations-names-offical-space-alien-liaison/

Hindustan Times
September 27, 2010
First Published: 23:24 IST(27/9/2010)
Last Updated: 23:26 IST(27/9/2010)
... So the UN — the big daddy of such bilateral/multilateral meetings — has decided to be ready in case such an event happens. Its Office for Outer Space Affairs (OFOSA) has appointed Malaysian astrophysicist Mazlan Othman to be the ‘’take me to your leader” person ...
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Coming-alien-nations/Article1-605381.aspx

The Independent
Nicholas Lezard: How not to greet a little green man
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/nicholas-lezard-how-not-to-greet-a-little-green-man-2090450.html

Rich Lowry
Last Updated: 12:28 AM, September 28, 2010
Democrats in denial
... you must be so far out of touch that you need to call Mazlan Othman, the United Nations' designated liaison to space aliens, to re-establish contact with Planet Earth ...
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/democrats_in_denial_myQetxiF6ABBSzEX2AbG3H?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME=#ixzz10nYdeAfM

Rush Limbaugh
UN Should Name Obama and Carville as Official UFO Greeters
September 27, 2010
RUSH: This is totally believable, totally believable. "The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs..." I am not making this up. "The United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs was initially created as a small expert unit within the Secretariat to service the ad hoc Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space established by the General Assembly in its resolution 1348 (XIII) of 13 December 1958. It became a unit within the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs in 1962..." Today -- I'm not joking -- the United Nations has stepped this up. They appointed somebody, a woman, to be the leader when aliens land here in say, "Take me to your leader." The UN has appointed a woman to be that person. I kid you not ... http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_092710/content/01125109.guest.html

UPI
Science News
U.N. set to name 'ambassador' to aliens
Published: Sept. 27, 2010 at 5:35 PM
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/09/27/UN-set-to-name-ambassador-to-aliens/UPI-91291285623359/

Weekly World News
U.N. FORMS ALIEN PANEL
Posted on Monday, September 27th, 2010
By Frank Lake
... Professor Mazlan Othman is in charge of conducting negotiations with the first extraterrestrials ever allowed into the United Nations. They are discussing the political, social and economic ramifications of the coming alien invasion. The new department is called United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs ... http://weeklyworldnews.com/headlines/22776/u-n-forms-alien-panel/

Wired
Astrophysicist to be named UN’s alien ambassador
By Mark Brown |27 September 2010 |Categories: Politics, Culture, Wired Science
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2010-09/27/alien-ambassador

[Jim Sagle]

1. 'Now it's all smashed flat.' Tom Friedman, the Moustache of Understarding, predicted this.

If it's global, it's GOTTA be good. :sarcasm:

[Hissyspit]

2. I love this response at The Guardian:

Also:
Mazlan Othman
M. Othman
MOTHMAN

*Puts on tinfoil hat*

[pinboy3niner]

7. OMG--the prophecies are true!

:rofl:

[formercia]

3. Men in Black

Tabloids are a secret Intelligence source and means of covert communications with Aliens. :rofl:

[malaise]

4. Anything that's bad press for the UN is good NEWS

for neo-cons and their enablers.

[pretzel4gore]

5. and, meanwhile, the UN acts as agency of mister pig...

the nazipoohs win coming and going! and complain on top of winning!

[struggle4progress]

6. Successful diplomacy = less money for war machinery. Military-industrial complex

don't like that much.