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sophiaserpentia) wrote2009-04-22 05:02 pm
sophiaserpentia) wrote2009-04-22 05:02 pm
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From America's finest news source (the Onion):
*sighs* It's true, it's too frakking true.
In related news... what if a journalist won the Pulitzer Prize for an expose which was eerily not mentioned on any news network? In The Pulitzer-winning investigation that dare not be uttered on TV we can read all about how David Barstow of The New York Times won a Pulitzer which has received no commentary on TV, because the story he broke was on the conflicts of interest of several retired generals who had been hired by every major news network as military analysis and expert commentators. Still connected to the Pentagon, and also with financial ties to war profiteering corporations, these folks then went on TV under the guise of neutral commentators to speak about the necessity of war in Iraq.
Why... you'd almost be inclined to think that maybe news networks weren't doing their job. Where would you get a silly idea like that?
Seymour Hersh Uncovers New Thing Too Sad To Think About: "Sources at The New Yorker said a new article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh 'blows the lid completely off' a subject matter far too soul-crushing for the human brain to process. Hersh, renowned for breaking stories on events such as the My Lai Massacre and Abu Ghraib, is said to have plumbed every last, depressing detail of the newly uncovered topic, which likely involves an inconceivable combination of violence, drunken abuses of power, wanton disregard for the sanctity of human life, and a chain of deceit and corruption leading all the way to the top. According to a recent poll, none of The New Yorker's nearly 1 million subscribers had summoned the strength to crack the story's first paragraph, instead turning to the new Roz Chast cartoon on the next page."
*sighs* It's true, it's too frakking true.
In related news... what if a journalist won the Pulitzer Prize for an expose which was eerily not mentioned on any news network? In The Pulitzer-winning investigation that dare not be uttered on TV we can read all about how David Barstow of The New York Times won a Pulitzer which has received no commentary on TV, because the story he broke was on the conflicts of interest of several retired generals who had been hired by every major news network as military analysis and expert commentators. Still connected to the Pentagon, and also with financial ties to war profiteering corporations, these folks then went on TV under the guise of neutral commentators to speak about the necessity of war in Iraq.
Why... you'd almost be inclined to think that maybe news networks weren't doing their job. Where would you get a silly idea like that?