{"id":261,"date":"2008-08-28T14:42:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T21:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/archives\/261"},"modified":"2008-08-28T15:12:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T22:12:33","slug":"talking-heads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/2008\/08\/talking-heads\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Heads"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Does anyone besides me want to slap the so-called “analysts” on the cable news networks upside the head?<\/h4>\n

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I’ve been watching much of the Democratic National Convention this week and am thoroughly disgusted by the truly deranged commentary<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Rather than journalism, they are all about creating conflict and drama – even if it isn’t there.<\/p>\n

The MSNBC team turned into mind readers<\/em>…\u00c2\u00a0 especially Pat Buchanan who\u00c2\u00a0apparently knows Hillary better than she\u00c2\u00a0knows herself.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 He told us what Hillary was really<\/em> thinking while giving her speech – and the journatlists who should KNOW BETTER did the same, or asking everyone they interviewed to take a shot at\u00c2\u00a0reading her mind.\u00c2\u00a0 Never mind what she actually SAID in her speech – they know better what she’s thinking.<\/p>\n

And Fox is the worst of them<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 I was swtiching through all of the news channels to get a feel for the coverage after the speeches, and was shocked by the nonsense I heard there.\u00c2\u00a0 Were they watching the same speeches????? <\/em>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

If\u00c2\u00a0FOX news would\u00c2\u00a0come out and admit it they are simply a mouth piece for the GOP<\/em> I could accept that – but their ABSURD moniker of being “Fair and Balanced” makes me want to throw up. Or take a gun and shoot myself.\u00c2\u00a0 No, take it to the studio and shoot all of them.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anyone who would hire Karl Rove (evil incarnate)<\/em> to be a news analyst should be shot.\u00c2\u00a0 OK, maybe I’m taking that too far.\u00c2\u00a0 Should be sent to an assylum for the truly deluded and deranged.\u00c2\u00a0 But Karl Rove should be shot, or imprisoned and tortured for all his crimes he’ll never pay for on this earth. It never ceases to amaze me how many people turn off their brains and believe the partisan crap on this not-news station.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0I can only figure they like hearing stuff that feeds into their existing world veiw – rather than the way things are.<\/p>\n

What has happened to real, objective journalism???<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thank heaven for PBS<\/a> and C-SPAN.<\/a><\/em>\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I watched Bill’s speech last night (which was incredible, by the way)<\/em> on CSPAN – and when I turned to PBS afterward, I heard intelligent analysis without all the invented drama.<\/p>\n

\"JonFrankly, the only sources I trust for news are NPR and PBS – and of course Jon Stewart (one of the most trusted journalists in America, by the way<\/a>) thrown in for a comedic take.\u00c2\u00a0 Viewers of his “fake” news show actually get <\/em=\"b\">more accurate information than on those who watch Fox).<\/p>\n

Who do you think are the worst (or best) journalists\/analysts and commentators?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Does anyone besides me want to slap the so-called “analysts” on the cable news networks upside the head? \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve been watching much of the Democratic National Convention this week and am thoroughly disgusted by the truly deranged commentary.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Rather than journalism, they are all about creating conflict and drama – even if it isn’t … Continue reading Talking Heads<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-social-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silenceoftheclams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}