shingles shingles little star, how i wonder what you are
Well, it's a lot of pain, followed by a lot of pain, complemented by a lot of p a i n. I'm just grateful that I had the time to prepare and enjoy Ali's birthday on Friday because right the next day the pain was starting to be too much to take and we had to go to a walk-in clinic. Since then I've been in bed, suffering from the painful electrifying shivers of pain from the blisters on my arm and the back of my neck and the sleepless uncomfortable nights. Just today I am starting to feel a little better, although I'm still incapable of lifting a finger.. the medicine is really exhausting me. I really hope it ends soon and with no marks.
In the mean time, my time-out of the world of real work has been depressingly filled with news watching. First, I was appalled with the rest of the world with the "shit" Bush comment, then I was reassured of the biased coverage of the CNN when they insisted on calling the British Foreign Office Minister "Junior" because he said something they didn't like, and finally my faith in a little bit of honesty was restored watching Jeremy Bowen on the BBC saying that it's not logical for Israel to say that it's war is with Hizbullah only because it's destroying the whole of Lebanon.
Ah... I was wondering today if it's ever going to be possible to watch the news one day without hearing that someone died somewhere..
Mai
In the mean time, my time-out of the world of real work has been depressingly filled with news watching. First, I was appalled with the rest of the world with the "shit" Bush comment, then I was reassured of the biased coverage of the CNN when they insisted on calling the British Foreign Office Minister "Junior" because he said something they didn't like, and finally my faith in a little bit of honesty was restored watching Jeremy Bowen on the BBC saying that it's not logical for Israel to say that it's war is with Hizbullah only because it's destroying the whole of Lebanon.
Ah... I was wondering today if it's ever going to be possible to watch the news one day without hearing that someone died somewhere..
Mai
posted by Mai at 4:15 PM
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CNN's Broken News
CNN's coverage of the Israeli-Hezbollah crisis has been the most comprehensive of all the networks. You can see why when they show you the number of reporters they have stationed in the Israel-Lebanon area. They put up pictures of all of them and it looks like the geneological table of a strange family.
However, the also have the most irritating graphics of any network. They have "Breaking News" of events that happened yesterday. They show "News Alerts" in the late evening of things that everyone has seen throughout the day and early evening. They have "Developing Story" that they use each time a bomb lands or a casualty is reported. What do they expect that Story will develop into?
They won't let up on the graphics while feeding the public the same stories all day and night long. Then they wonder why cable outlets have such little credibility and audience share. People hear the same "Breaking News" three times within an hour and they are bound to start looking for the remote.
It's one thing to have fake advertising. It's a more serious breach of the public trust to have false "Breaking News, News Alerts, and Developing Stories". Leave the fake news to the "Daily Show with Jon Stewart. They're much better at it.
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