o.O

MajorMajorMajor said:

i will have to say that i dunno much bout the ACLU but if all is true…. sum changes need be changing

Never, ever trust the ACLU. Ever.

Ever.

Its amazing how many lies are make the “news” even small pointless worthless meningless stuff they lie about.. it really blows my mind. They say what the people wont to here no matter what. MasterP is correct i’d trust a kid in middleschool storie over a professional news cast.

I will admit that the DHS has some problems. When the next plane blows up (knock-knock-knock) it won’t be the doing of a little old lately smugling a plastic explosive in a tube of toothpaste. I flew earlier this week. One of the folks at the gates looked through my bag and found some toothpaste. She shook her head and made a sound like “Uh-uh-uh.” She confiscated the tube and gave me back my bag. My inner-smartass wanted to say “praise allah most high” before leaving, but I decided it would be better to reach my location that day.

Poopie said:

FOX news is garbage.

Compared to?

He seems to be comparing it to something. Most of the other stations have had people forced out over falsified interviews and reports, to my knowledge Fox hasn’t.

On the original subject, did the CNN reporter interview or talk to known terrorists? That WILL get you on the list, as it should. If the story is true I imagine part of the story wasn’t reported. It’s not like CNN doesn’t leave out important bits and pieces when it suits them.

Majin Ephraim said:

My inner-smartass wanted to say “praise allah most high” before leaving, but I decided it would be better to reach my location that day.

Lolz, I laughed hard at that.

I have to take the same tact when I watch the news. You just never can tell who’s leaving out something or outrightly lying about it. I’ve found that media bias, no matter who its from, is generally manifested in the parts of the stories or even whole stories that they don’t tell.

Just as an example. (Don’t flame me please.) Last year when Iraq was mayhem, you heard about it all the time. Now its mostly peaceful, and we don’t hear anything. The same amount (more in fact) of our troops are there, but the media preys on bad news. That’s why we hear so much about the economy right now.

Speaking of which have any of you been hearing the familiar story that runs around Black Friday of every year since about 2001? It goes something like “Consumers will be tightening their wallets this Christmas as the soaring price of gas and a generally weakening economy takes its toll.” I believe there has been record consumer spending at Christmas every year for the past 20 or more years. My point is this…. you also have to filter out the baseless speculation that the media is prone to do. When they can’t find enough depressing news, they speculate that there will be some in the future and so *poof* they have something to talk about tonight on their news cast.

Actually, the best sources of current events news are the Daily Show and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Seriously. Its not funny if its not true. Or something like that.

MasterP said:

LoL

 

You do know he wasn’t born John Stuart, right? He’s the least reliable source of what you might call information as any of them.

 

BBC used to be terrible but they’ve been getting better over the last few years, mainly because they aren’t based over here so they have to do at least a little research before running with something.

 

If you’re counting comedians and talk show hosts, the two you listed are in the lower half of the “has the most informed audience” list. When Bush gets out of office he’s going to run out of stuff to make fun of so idk how much longer his show will run. If McCain doesn’t get elected he’ll have almost nothing to talk about.

First, it’s John Stewart; second, he doesn’t make up the jokes. Maybe that makes him a bad comedian, maybe not. That isn’t the point; nor is whether or not the audience is informed. I would rather get my news from Jay Leno than Dan Rather/Katie Couric/etc anyday

MasterP said:

You missed my point…

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Stewart

 

He changed his name b/c he didn’t think Jews could succeed in Hollywood.

 

Second, idc who makes his jokes, my point remains. He’s going to run out of rebulican material if Obama wins and he’ll have to make fun of democrats, something most of his audience will not like.

 

As for Rather/Couric, good point. They fail at life.

Jon Stewart won’t have nearly the problem that Stephen Colbert will. Not even close.

Also, love the reference to wikipedia. Talk about reliable sources.

Another great site for news: theonion.com It even says right there under its name “America’s Finest News Source”.

MasterP: that was a joke.

Nickname said:

MasterP: that was a joke.

Too late…

lol

WHY ARE MOMMY AND DADDY FIGHTING!!!

MajorMajorMajor said:

and which ones mommy and which ones daddy

Wow. I didn’t think it out that far.

But, seriously. Fox News is fine and late-night talk shows aren’t a reputable source of information.