Friday, March 19, 2004

What? You mean the news isn't REAL?!? Shocking! (not...) 

Hmmm, I don't hear any righteous outrage from the FCC over the White House's fake news segments. They paid actors to dress up and pretend to be news anchors and field reporters giving positive "news" stories about the White House's new Medicare reform bill. You know, that Medicare reform package that, after it was passed in both houses of congress, it was revealed that it was going to cost a few orders of magnitude more than the White House let on, and the one that gives HMOs and drug companies free reign to make our senior citizens bend over and take it like a a choir boy. Yeah, that's the one.

So, accordiing to the FCC, uttering the F-word, or any derivative of such, is a threat to the moral fabric of our proud nation. But using taxpayer money for the White House to disseminate patently fake propaganda disguised as journalism gets the okey-dokey? In-feckin'-credible!

And just for good measure, USAToday's ex-reporter Jack Kelley, completely made up a bunch of his "news" stories...including stories that were up for Pulitzer Prizes.

Journalism, a career for which I was training during my high school years, has now just about reached the depths of selling used cars or being one of those "Lionel Hutz"-type lawyers.