Special Report!

I'm sick today, and spent a large portion of the day on the couch, reviewing all that daytime television has to offer. Of particular interest to everyone in the world is that Danielle Radcliffe, Harry Potter himself, is starring in a London stage version of Equus. This production requires him to bare all, and that has the worlds news anchors up in arms.

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I'm terribly sick of the nations newsmen and women foisting their cultural agenda upon us, and I'm not speaking of the likes of Bill O'Reilly and Tucker Carlson.
I'm more disgusted by those smarmy little assholes on your local television station. The one's who seem to donate 10% of every newscast to actual political and world events in order to bring us the very crushing and damnable news stories of the day - like where to get the best gelato (Gelato! I've never heard of such a thing! You mean it's like ice cream but Italian? I thought Italians put garlic in everything! Ha Ha!) Or better yet, to run some foreign footage of a cow running through an intersection during rush hour, or a turtle that thinks it's mother is a squirrel in Texas. (I guess that turtle is NUTS for his little friend, isn't that right, Norm?)
My favorite act of irony is when they do a special report on how American kids aren't able to compete on the world market - I wonder how they got so dumbed down?! Or my absolute fav - American's are so fat! What are we ever going to do? Then then go to commercial, 3 of the 5 of which are for KFC, Taco Bell, & a very tearfully poignant McDonalds commercial, where a dad and his daughter bond over a happy meal.
What ever happened to journalism? This afternoon alone, I've watched the news media pick apart Hilary Clinton for uttering the words "evil and bad men" postulating as to whether she means her husband, and then turn on her further by going to the anchor person and asking "do you think she'll be able to overcome being a woman as she runs for president?" Well, no, I don't. Not as long as you keep asking that insulting question to each other on the air.
They keep the focus on that issue, which is unethical by the very definition of journalism, by interviewing each other instead of the public. They do the same to Obama about being black.
Today I watched as the crack news force on Channel 3 reported on how Lance Bass and Reichen Lehmkuhl (or however the frack you spell his name) had gotten back together, but now are broken up and are going to remain friends. The anchor then tossed it to the weather man, with some stupid comment, making them both look uncomfortable and ridiculous. It was as if they were playing an on air game of "keep a straight face while talking about the gays". Just shut up and deliver the news, jerk.
P.S. The weatherman doesn't control the weather - that joke was funny from 1964-1971 - otherwise referred to as the First Thousand Times you told it.