news?
While watching the Montel Williams Show yesterday morning, the program was interrupted by a "News Bulletin" about a low flying, single engine plane near restricted airspace around DC. Just as Sylvia Browne was about to say something interesting, we are abruptly taken away by an old CBS news anchor who vaguely knows what is going on. He then talks to a reporter & crew on the scene who can only echo the vague details that the anchor had just given us. Kind of dismayed that I missed something that I was actually interested in and resigned to the fact that I might have to watch this play out, I changed the channel to CNN where I got filled in with proper, detailed information. Good news! A "possible threat" to national security had been averted.
Why didn't CBS just put a "ticker" type news update while still showing the original program until something conclusive could be offered? If I were interested in the news as they gave it, I would seek out more detailed information, like change the channel to CNN (like I did anyway) or go online. A ticker would have given me the exact information that the anchor and reporter imparted with minimal interruption of the original program that I wanted to watch.
Anyway, I've been noticing that it's been slow for news these days. Perhaps this is a good thing as most news is invariably bad news. I guess it really was a wise person who said, "No news is good news."
posted by Lester T. at 10:07 AM
5 Comments:
i realize the need to protect the airspace around the whitehouse, unfortunately i have no proposed solutions. however, a near-miss shooting is not uncalled for. it should be common sense that the airspace around the whitehouse is considered sensitive space.
perhaps a campaign to educate pilots is in order. more tax dollars to protect the idiot!
9:21 PM
while i don't disagree with the need for restricted airspace around the white house & capitol and i understand that occurrences like this one are rare, my beef is with the network and their news team. why would they interrupt regular programming for incomplete, vague information. it's kind of like the doctor calling you to tell you there's a problem, it has to do with your body but can't tell you exactly what it is yet.
as for idiots, we need idiots to make regular people look smart and to create jobs. idiots should definitely NOT carry licenses to operate vehicles and heavy machinery.
10:28 AM
i'm not sure if george w has a driver's license :-)
1:34 PM
people love to freak out!
and people love to make other people freak out WITH them even more!!
i would have rather watched sylvia brown too
and honestly, i wouldn't mind so much if something happened to george w.
not bodily harm, but some type of sudden mental disorder that caused both him, and chaney, to step down and finally admit they're completly inept
6:34 AM
mm:are they really inept? or is it all an elaborate ploy?? read my stupid post? bet you were dumbfounded! ;)
5:44 PM
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