Is anyone else just plain tired of all the ME news?

[pooja]

Sriously, it is biased as usual. Reporters are making unfounded statements. In the mean time all relavant US news is swept behind the curtain (which they want since elections are coming up and Iraq isn't doing so well.) And now, somehow, Mel's drunk driving episode somehow is effecting the ME. WTF is wrong with this damn country, our fake news, and people of this country who give away their governing rights by sitting there and taking it.

[Sadie5]

1. Adding to this

is the 24/7 accounts of the Lebanon/Israel war on all the cable channels. They seem to be playing up this conflict in order to make us forget about Iraq and all the missing billions plus the lobbyist scandals, open ended no bid contracts they gave to their friends, etc...

[itzamirakul]

2. No, I am not tired of all ME news but if you are suffering burnout

just don't click onto those threads. Sometimes you have to take a break...:shrug:

[Philosoraptor]

3. way past tired, but its only the beginning unfortunately...n/t

[Tin Man]

8. Yep, lots more killing on the way.

...and after all the blood letting is finally over, nothing will have changed.

[QuestionAll...]

4. imagine how sick of it you would be seeing it first hand.

and can't turn to another channel of reality.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

5. I'm not tired of news of the ME. But, I ignore American coverage of it.

The fluff that passes for "news" in this country is about as reliable as the informercials for Instant Hair Growth treatments.

[joemurphy]

7. Agreed. No analysis, no insight, no even-handedness

No real journalism at all.

And no Democrats, I might add. Too much AIPAC, and too much controversy.

[earth mom]

6. I'm tired of the extreme religious beliefs that are at the heart all of it

In the Middle East AND the United States. I wish everyone would just CHILL the hell out, stop playing "tit for tat" and give up the "my way or the highway" attitude and do some compromising to get along!

All of it is beyond old and not only that, but as we all know...people are dying because of it and that should NEVER happen. :(

[Tin Man]

9. God is on their side (both sides actually... God often hedges his bets)

[Nite Owl]

10. Yes because it is all that is on

they are not covering other things that are happening like Iraq and economy.

[SoCalDem]

11. In the wee hours of the morning, I was able to watch CNN-International

WHAT a difference.. If only we could watch that all the time instead of the "packaged/massaged" crap they dose out to us here..

Of course, after the "breaking news" segment they were showing, it was right back to the destruction of the barracks in beirut "show" that CNN has been showing round the clock here..

[Vidar]

12. Yes, & I'm glad the mods are sending some of it back to the IP forum.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Blood on the Rooftops

Let’s skip the news boy (I’ll go make some tea)
The arabs and the jews boy (too much for me)
They get me confused boy (puts me off to sleep)
And the thing I hate - oh lord!
Is staying up late, to watch some debate, on some nation’s fate.

Genesis song lyrics, 1976

Plus ça change ...

[gulliver]

14. Seems like we had a lot less under Clinton. Is it just me?