Reply #73: How right you are! I heard the glee in their voices too, and [View All]

[vickitulsa]

saw it in their faces -- they were (and still are to some extent) animated, happy to have a huge story to run with, excited as hell to be in on it bigtime.

As a lifelong news junkie, I began my withdrawals from all TV news, particularly the so-called "all news" channels, just over a year ago -- about the same time I joined DU, as it turns out. I was so sick of the bought-and-paid-for corporate media takeover I just couldn't stand another day of it.

I had already begun to find lots of good news sources, mostly on the Nets, online where not every reporter has a "company line" to toe or a "party line" to spew.

But since the Israel/Hizbollah/Lebanon war blew up into a full-scale ordeal with a lot happening, I tuned back in to CNN, MSNBC, and on rare occasion just to see how they were reporting it, even Faux. Then, riveted by the simple fact that these organizations felt it worthwhile to send even their "biggies" to the war zones, putting them in direct danger and VERY uncomfortable conditions, I have kept watching as the horrors continue to unfold in Lebanon and Israel.

I had already seen a lot of the same GLEE you noted among the reporters, only it was in relation to the war in Lebanon! They were downright effervescent ... giddy ... overjoyed to be there, to be reporting such a BIG story. At first, anyway.

NOW, after it's dragged on for over a month and they're getting really tired and dirty and scared and developing their own individual cases of PTSD after hearing the booms going off so near them for so long, doing without sleep, without the comforts of home ... NOW they aren't so gleeful about the war in Lebanon.

So what happens next to relieve them? The Big Bad Breaking News Story that is the Foiled British Terror Plot! The relatively unknown faces stateside who are holding down the desks of the anchors who are in Lebanon and Israel see their big chance -- a NEW Big Bad Breaking News Story for THEM! Woohoo! They're grinning from ear to ear, cannot control their elation, it shows on the air over and over again.

And it makes me sick.

Another thing that's really crazy about the current corporate media environment is that hardly ANY story has enough legs to last -- or at least to dominate the broadcasts -- for more than 24-48 hours. It's only the sheer importance of the war in Lebanon that has kept the big news anchors on location there for a whole month. That and the continuing escalation and constant new major developments. AND the babbling heads in our criminal government regime involving themselves in the story to their political advantage (or so they believe)....

But already I'm seeing that this Big Terror Plot Foiled By Britain Not The U.S. is fading fast in the news ... the Lebanon war story continues and surges back onscreen and things have "gotten back to normal" at the airports in record time. People adapt very quickly now to new rules regarding air travel and whether the plot was genuinely a threat or not, it WAS FOILED so folks have already shown a willingness to dismiss it from their immediate attention.

So all that glee was sort of pointless and definitely seems to have been truncated, right? Geez, how low have our corporate news reporters sunk....

It's so disgusting I'm finding it easier and easier to do what a lot of Americans have done and turn to SPORTS NEWS for "unfolding drama" since the corporate media delivers little better....

I can't, however, raise a scintilla of interest in celebrities! Hah! :rofl: