TV News

I currently have the news on right now. Local news in fact, not connected to a national network. The news coverage is so horrible. People wonder why the mainstream media isn't doing well...how about this, actually covering the news, not entertainment stories, dump the sports coverage, and show hard news. Local corruption would be good around here in Chicago locally, for obvious reasons. But cover the news, what's happening, what the population needs to know.

It's one of the many reasons I get a lot of my news from bloggers and the BBC. One of the good things about growing up in Detroit, is that we get Canadian news coverage, as local coverage. There was always that other point of view you could listen to, just across the river.

Look at what happened today at the WashingtonPost. One of its bloggers was fired. The one who was covering completely the Bush/Cheney torture program. Andrew Sullivan explains this better than I here.

Additionally, look at the coverage of what's happening in Iran on the cable networks. There was nothing. Literally nothing. Where could one get information? From Andrew Sullivan, the Huffington Post, and strangely enough, the Lede in the NY Times. Twitter supplied a lot of information itself, although the information was very unfiltered. One would have to take everything with a grain of salt, and get corroboration.

I needed that rant. Much better now.