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.