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I’m watching KTVU news this morning for no reason whatsoever. Every once in awhile I turn it on to see how long I can stand to have my news chewed up, editorialized, injected with extra fear and/or religion, and regurgitated back to me. I think my current record is about 2 minutes.
The pertinent facts of the current story is this: A woman in Oakland was hit and killed by a car overnight, which did not stick around the scene of the accident or call it in or anything.
Not interesting enough for morning news apparently. Frank Somerville and the (allegedly) dickhead writers of KTVU chose to add this unnecessary bit of fluff: “at Grand avenue and Lennox, which is [tense and knowing emphasis] very close [/] to Children’s Fairyland.”
Because it could have been YOUR CHILD who was viciously run down. In the middle of the night. At 1:15am. Going to Fairyland. As they tend to do at 1:15am.
The fact that a woman was killed isn’t funny, but that the TV news is sensationalizing it is. In a terrifying way.
A few days ago I heard an interview with Mike Gravel on NPR. He noted that the American public has been kept in a state of continuous fear by our government since the beginning of the Cold War, and that the mainstream DNC candidates are not likely to change the status quo.
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Funny… returning home from 4 weeks in Europe, I clicked on the SFGate- the first US newspaper I’d looked at, since I’d left. The frontpage was smattered with similarly irrelevant-to-the-public stories, and for the forthcoming days, continued to be.
I’d always kind of thought this… tho coming home from an extended stay in Holland where people are… just… HAPPY, don’t work all the time, don’t argue on their cellphones while walking down the street, “bling” fashion doesn’t seem to exist, children seem content and well-behaved, and everybody rides fabulous public transit and bicycles… so the rectal diamond industry exists not, too… yeah. Big, freaky reality check.
The really sad part: I totally thought I’d lose interest in the Daily Dish- to the contrary. It’s now some of the only American news, I can take seriously… perhaps because it’s just about the only news in the SFGate that doesn’t try to be something it’s not!
Funny…I usually wait until around 3am to take the girls to F-LAND. That’s when shit be off the heezy.
Fo sheezy.