Breslin: Media din drowned out 2 major stories

[Sticky]

That clip-clip-clip you heard were the Pekinese of the Press trotting to please and pander. Hurry, hurry, hurry! I must cover the new survival show.

In all my years in my business, through assassinations, serial killers, and suddenly being startled by the great national movements started before the news business realized it - civil rights and the women's movement - I never saw or felt anything like the occurrences of this week. Decades and decades of staring blankly at television finally struck the news business dumb.

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The news reporting business then made it seem momentus. Amend the Constitution. Absolutely marvelous! The matter was gone the moment it came out of his mouth. Not in the media, which truly is the plural for mediocre.

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Of all the things I have been taught and read about my religion, the only time that Christ got mad was when he threw the money changers out of the temple. This is exactly what the movie is about. A Hollywood actor and producer named Mel Gibson brought this movie out on Ash Wednesday and showed himself to be just another money changer. The news reporters, and that is television and papers, these dreadful Pekinese, wrote about a movie as if the earth shook.

For More on what the media ignored last week:

http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-nybreslin293690504feb29,0,5574161.column?coll=ny-news-columnists

[tom_paine]

1. Jimmy B. is old school journalism. His kind is dying out.

When they are truly gone, then Imperial Amerika will move along with it's transformation into Totalitarian-Orwellian Tyranny.

[blm]

2. Breslin is just - THE BEST.

He always pares it down to just the facts and how it effects us, the everyman.

[Sticky]

3. and woman

:hi:

[blm]

heheh....yes...

I was using the word in its general "mankind" way.

;)

[izzie]

4. I would say this is how things work.

The news is their but who really wants to read it so just sit back and the TV will tell us what we should be interested in. We end up with the govt we ask for. If this is what people want what can one do about it.