Spend 5 minutes with me and you’ll come to realize that I’m not the biggest fan of our mainstream media. Every time I talk to my mom she asks me if I read the Sacramento Bee, and I have to remind her that I don’t think it’s worth the paper it’s printed on (and hence, why I won’t link to it on my page, Google it if you wish). So there, there’s my opinion of our mass-fear-mongering-pandering-media.
And I’m being generous, by the way.
So if I’m really bored at work, I’ll visit a couple news sites. My favorite is the Christian Science Monitor (As I’ve stated before, yes, I’m an atheist, but I feel that the CSM does a great job at reporting the news, is as unbiased as they come, and does a great job about not talking about Britney - intelligently done news, if you will).
If I’m really bored, I’ll check CNN for the hell of it, and I whip myself mercilessly for going to such a vile site.
Today, as CNN's main stories include the devastation from China’s earthquake and the cyclone that ravaged Myanmar, I notice this new little icon next to some of the news stories.
What the hell is that? Click.
Awesome! Sign me up!
If THAT’S not stupid and pandering, I don’t know what is.
And I’m being generous, by the way.
So if I’m really bored at work, I’ll visit a couple news sites. My favorite is the Christian Science Monitor (As I’ve stated before, yes, I’m an atheist, but I feel that the CSM does a great job at reporting the news, is as unbiased as they come, and does a great job about not talking about Britney - intelligently done news, if you will).
If I’m really bored, I’ll check CNN for the hell of it, and I whip myself mercilessly for going to such a vile site.
Today, as CNN's main stories include the devastation from China’s earthquake and the cyclone that ravaged Myanmar, I notice this new little icon next to some of the news stories.
What the hell is that? Click.
...And then it takes you to a site in which you can BUY A T-SHIRT with the headline you just clicked on. No, I am not making this up. For $15 and $4.99 shipping and handling ($19.99 for the math challenged), I can be the proud owner of a shirt that says “Nude Model Tells Why She Bared All – I saw it at CNN.com, time/date” while there are people into the six and seven digits dead or missing right now. So I get to spend money (which may or may not be from my rebate check bribe) to wear a shirt to floss a website that keeps me following the masses like sheeple do?
Awesome! Sign me up!
If THAT’S not stupid and pandering, I don’t know what is.
