Monday, March 07, 2005

Reporting the news

I'm watching CNN on my last day before starting a new job and losing the joys of spending three hours a day arragning and rearranging my fantasy baseball draft order when a story comes on about a demonstration somewhere in Europe. Apparently a bunch on women got upity and held and informal protest. The highlight, however, came when several riot police beating the crap out of one helpless woman. She was running away, they pushed her down, she tried to get up but was kicked in the back, then as she was on her knees she was kicked in the ribs and finally, just for good measure, as she leaned her head back to cry, another policeman kicked her square in the face. The instant the boot hit her check bone, the CNN anchor said deadpanned, "There were no injuries reported."

Now I understad the idea of journalistic integrity and hate Fox News and it's "commentary", but isn't there some middel ground where an unbiased journalist can say, "Well, they are reporting no injuries but obviously this woman just got her face smashed in"? I figure you paper pushers might have an opinion on this.

4 Comments:

Blogger Aden said...

Interesting thought, but who's posting is it?
-Aden

March 7, 2005 at 10:44 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I saw a scene like that once, only it involved Ramey all drunk on Cosmos and Serazio all helpless. She beat the shit out of him with her pointy-ass shoe and the next day his journalistic integrity claimed he "fell down the stairs" and that it was "his fault." Go figure....

- Cory

March 7, 2005 at 12:57 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Aden. I'll give you two clues about who's posting this might be.

1) This person spends hours every day fucking around with his fantasy baseball team, and the season isn't even close to starting.

2) He spells middle "middel"

March 8, 2005 at 12:31 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

That's right, I posted it. And just cause I cant spel dosen't make me a bad person so back the hell of.

CD

March 8, 2005 at 2:06 PM  

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