Wednesday, December 01, 2004
Let's congratulate Tom Brokaw (& Dan Rather & Peter Jennings) for presiding over the dumbing down of network national news. Does anyone who really cares about getting the "news" watch any of these programs? That stuff is softer than Dairy Queen ice cream. It's been years since I turned on the boob toob at 6:30 pm. I don't watch The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer either; when's the last time a talking head regular on that program delivered up an opinion or interpretation of current events that surprised you with its originality? I reached a point with Lehrer's program where I could predict - with remarkable success - what the commentators were going to say. We Americans look at the world through the wrong end of a telescope. One can be just as inadequately informed by listening to the four minute hourly national news on WCBS AM radio, or stretch a little with the BBC World News on channel 21 at 11 p.m.
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Two lousy stories from Jersey today. The GM plant in Linden is closing, probably forever. It's been making SUVs, mostly for the Canadian market. If the plant were closing because people hated SUV gas mileage, or because you couldn't get a tax break when you bought one, it would actually be a sign of positive changes. But it's closing because the Jimmy can't compete with a Ford.
It was also revealed that the oil spill from a leaking tanker in the Delaware River is much worse than originally announced; could be as much as 400,000 gallons rather than the 30,000 gallon figure. So, it took days for the Coast Guard, EPA & all the other agencies monitoring the spill to even approximate its severity. Something not right there.
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"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
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Two lousy stories from Jersey today. The GM plant in Linden is closing, probably forever. It's been making SUVs, mostly for the Canadian market. If the plant were closing because people hated SUV gas mileage, or because you couldn't get a tax break when you bought one, it would actually be a sign of positive changes. But it's closing because the Jimmy can't compete with a Ford.
It was also revealed that the oil spill from a leaking tanker in the Delaware River is much worse than originally announced; could be as much as 400,000 gallons rather than the 30,000 gallon figure. So, it took days for the Coast Guard, EPA & all the other agencies monitoring the spill to even approximate its severity. Something not right there.
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