Subj : Re: Russia's Endgame
To   : BORAXMAN
From : Dumas Walker
Date : Fri Oct 07 2022 17:38:00

> A good point about lack of journalistic access to what is going on on the
> ground.  I remember the Gulf War (the first one), and the level of detail in
> the analysis and coverage.  All day coverage for days, which was a lot more
> than the 2003 Invasion.

Yes, I also remember that.  It was all the time coverage.  I had friends
over there so I watched a lot of it.  9/11 and the aftermath (anthrax
letters, the DC shooters) had similar coverage.

> Now, people are talking seriously about being on the verge of WWIII, and its
> not even the top stories.  I can go to news.com.au, and the headlines are abou
> Kanye, a Kardashian, some "racist rant" on a train, some Instragram rubbish,
> and what some woman said on TicTok.

A lot of our "news" is that crap, too.  Those shows usually air before or
after the local and network news and are dodgy at best but, yeah, there is
a lot about Kim Kardashian lately and her trouble with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.  Going on a "racist/sexist/xenophobic/anti-alphabet"
rant anywhere in public is also going to get a lot of repeat attention if
it gets video recorded by anyone with a cell phone.

> On our ABC new site, its not much better.
> Articles vying for top spot which are NOT news but merely some journalists
> musings on some pet social issue they want us to care about.

FOX and CNN websites are like that, too.  A lot of things that are opinion
pieces that are labeled as news.  Others pieces have clickbait headlines but
the story is not really what the headline says it is.  I have not checked what
the major over-the-air network news sites are like in a while.

> So I think it is in part what you said, less information, but also in part tha
> we have a different breed of journalists who don't know, and don't care, to
> report to us actual news.

I cannot disagree there.  They like to report what is going to get eyes on
their website/network/etc., so, a lot of times it is infotainment or
controversial opinion more than "real" news.


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