Why the internet is a blessing.....

Apparently folks, I'm not done blogging. Or year 11 hasn't gotten into full swing yet.

Theres also a possibility of me refusing to admit that I'm an egotistical bastard who will be attracted to any hint of exposure. Maybe its just the caffiene running through my veins.

But some things just continue to get me pissed.

1.The media.
2.Politicians on which fates of countries supposedly rest
3. US foreign policy
4. Dumbasses on the interweb.

Ok, So the internet has been a blessing for everyone, not just because it has free porn, but because it makes alternate sources more available to the common man, should he so desire.
But of course, the common man is more interested in seeing Britney's Tits than knowing about electrical outages which may affect him. (despite the fact that without electricity, you can't see your own tits, let alone britney's.


So, At 1130 at night, I'm yelling out "WTF ?" and "this is why no one takes the media seriously, or for that matter, trusts it" Because, of the 1100 news bulletin of 3 minutes ,at least 2 was taken up by the fact that Britney Spears has been admitted into a psychiatric hospital.

WHAT THE FUCK ?
WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE ?

You put more priority on Britney Spear's health (complete with police cars outside her house) than on the health of people suffering flash flooding and lightning storms ? people who may be trapped or killed?

WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH EDITORS THESE DAYS ?

It's like this

OMG OMG OMGOMGOMG Britney's GONE CRAZY. Experts say she may blame her mother. ..etc... blah blah blah , O by the way, the railway line to woollongong has been cut off and dozens of people were stranded, but lets get back to Britney, OH, look HEATH LEDGER took drugs...

GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF YOUR ASS (or the nearest celebrities), and START REPORTING REAL NEWS.

Edit: I actually wrote ASS out of you HEAD, I suppose it makes sense , since you can't tell the difference either way.

Unembedded Journalism... Why its needed.

I've been reading from Dahr Jamail and it seems with every page i turn i just keep getting more and more pissed.

It has a scathing accusations of the media, principally Judith Miller and Michael Gordon, whom both should have lost their reputations and their jobs for reporting and failing to correct improper Iraq WMD stories.

And the rest of the media for ignoring the blatant truth, that embedding with a military unit only gives you propaganda and lies.
Jamail, Is one of those few jems, who through principle, went to Iraq on his own funds, and started reporting eyewitness accounts of what he saw inside Baghdad.
Quite frankly, Every major newspaper should be syndicating him by now. Yes, his reports are filled with reports of death and destruction. But it's death that the US, Directly or indirectly CAUSED.

We need people like Dahr to go out there and see what the rest of us are too scared to see or even read about. the same is true even for me. I'd rather play a game of freelancer than read his book about the suffering of Iraqi people.

We need alternate sources, particularly because mass media are a bunch of corporate spineless cowards.