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Rant - The Press
7 years ago
If you've read my journals in the past, and have read the title of this post, you likely know what this is about. If not, I have a stick up my arse when it comes to the opertunism and lack of decorum of the mainstream press. And this is coming from someone as ghoulish and cold as me.
And if you know that's the topic I want to rant about today, you know that this isn't going to be good.
In case you've somehow missed it, 12 boys have gotten trapped inside a cave in Thailand and there is now a big rescue effort to save them. And by cave, we're not talking a walk in rocky tunnel, we're talking a confusing 3 dimensional maze of crawl spaces that can get as narrow as 15 inches. ...which is now flooded with muddy water. One of the rescue divers died during the rescue, which is still on going at time of writing.
So how can the press possibly mess this up?
Well, CNN used this opportunity to take swipes at Trump's immigration policy. ...I'm not making this up. The headline reads- "Whether trapped in a cave or held by the US, children need us to care"
http://archive.is/JwWTO
How obsessed do you have to be to make that connection? At least when it's a mass shooting, the subject of gun control is at least tangentially related. Here, we have a topic completely removed from US politics, and CNN is using it to take swipes at Trump.
I could be wrong. I don't follow US politics, so maybe Trumps immigration policy is to send kids into caves and then flood them? I also have to ask, again, what were the CNN journalists thinking? From what possible angle does this hurt Trump or advance the authors political goals?
And if you know that's the topic I want to rant about today, you know that this isn't going to be good.
In case you've somehow missed it, 12 boys have gotten trapped inside a cave in Thailand and there is now a big rescue effort to save them. And by cave, we're not talking a walk in rocky tunnel, we're talking a confusing 3 dimensional maze of crawl spaces that can get as narrow as 15 inches. ...which is now flooded with muddy water. One of the rescue divers died during the rescue, which is still on going at time of writing.
So how can the press possibly mess this up?
Well, CNN used this opportunity to take swipes at Trump's immigration policy. ...I'm not making this up. The headline reads- "Whether trapped in a cave or held by the US, children need us to care"
http://archive.is/JwWTO
How obsessed do you have to be to make that connection? At least when it's a mass shooting, the subject of gun control is at least tangentially related. Here, we have a topic completely removed from US politics, and CNN is using it to take swipes at Trump.
I could be wrong. I don't follow US politics, so maybe Trumps immigration policy is to send kids into caves and then flood them? I also have to ask, again, what were the CNN journalists thinking? From what possible angle does this hurt Trump or advance the authors political goals?
