Tonight I walked into the living room while my housemate was watching ABC News. So for the first time since I can't remember I watched.
There was a story by the liberal Jake Tapper about how we're on the brink of, or may already be engaged, in civil war in Iraq. But I had already read some first-hand reporting from Iraq earlier that day that indicated the opposite. Subsequent reading gave me further doubts.
This was followed by something about ice melting in Antarctica. No mention was made of any of the substantial evidence that calls this into question that I had read a few days before.
Then a story breathlessly reported that the Bush Administration was cracking down on journalists, but there was no opposing point of view or even much in the way of context.
The final piece was about how there isn't really a mountain in Wyoming called Brokeback.
Then I remembered why I never watch the news anymore.
There was a story by the liberal Jake Tapper about how we're on the brink of, or may already be engaged, in civil war in Iraq. But I had already read some first-hand reporting from Iraq earlier that day that indicated the opposite. Subsequent reading gave me further doubts.
This was followed by something about ice melting in Antarctica. No mention was made of any of the substantial evidence that calls this into question that I had read a few days before.
Then a story breathlessly reported that the Bush Administration was cracking down on journalists, but there was no opposing point of view or even much in the way of context.
The final piece was about how there isn't really a mountain in Wyoming called Brokeback.
Then I remembered why I never watch the news anymore.
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