Can't we just have some dam news. WTF I'm tired of raping this 27 year old

[madokie]

I mean really, is this the news today. Dammit, just tell me something thats news. I don't think they're listening though.

[TheFarseer]

1. If you think that's bad

Greta Van Susteren still talks about Natalie Hollowell every night.

[madokie]

2. I don't doubt it, this cabal is destroying our constitution as fast as

they can shit on it and no ones watch out for us except us. I say we remember this when we finally wrestle this strangle hold they have on our country from their greedy, bloody assed hands too.

[zbdent]

3. Speaking of Natalee Holloway . . .

did Florida ever find that little black 5 year old girl who was missing since the early 00s? You know, the one they :sarcasm:always are putting the picture up on Fox News and CNN:sarcasm:??? I think her name is Ryada something or other . . .

[madokie]

4. I don't think I'll ever be able to rely on print or teevee news anymore

They've done lost me. I'm a subscriber to 2 local newspapers and that only for the local news anymore.
peace

[noonwitch]

6. No, they didn't

As someone who works in that field, I'd guess the family is hiding her somewhere. I doubt that she's dead.

[nonconformist]

9. Pshaw, I bet nobody is even looking for her. nt

[kdmorris]

13. Rilya Wilson

And, no, they never found her. :cry:

[zbdent]

19. (actually, it was a rhetorical question

I knew they didn't find her . . .

And, for the lurking freepers . . . "rhetorical" means asking a question you didn't think anybody would bother to answer . . . don't want to get into too detailed a definition for them . . .)

[kdmorris]

20. LOL @ the definition

I mainly answered because I was kind of sad that I hadn't thought about it in so long. There seems to be so many things to concentrate on that it's hard to keep track of everything.

[Bushies gotta go]

5. You want Dam news?

Read this: http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0405hooverdam0405.html if you really give a damn.

[madokie]

8. anything particular, or just in general. Welcome to du

PEACE

[Bushies gotta go]

18. I just couldn't resist

Madokie, thought you were looking for Dam news instead of damn news. :)

[madokie]

21. Alright, sometimes I forget that dam n.

peace
have a great weekend.
:hi:

[nonconformist]

7. It's so pathetic.

I was watching LinkTV this morning (excellent channel), and the news programs on there (both international and US news) make me realize just how FUCKED UP our news channels are.

Not that I didn't already know this, mind you. But they're covering stuff like outsourcing/offshoring/insourcing, the diminishing middle class, global warming, environmental disasters at the hands of oil corporations, poverty around the world, Darfur, etc.

What do we get? Entertainment shock-value "news".

[CatholicEdHead]

10. I podcast internationally to get most of this info

I get podcasts from the BBC, ABC Radio National (Australia), etc... for the news. ABC Australia has many, many good documentaries on their shows. They podcast most of their lineup. Some is Australia-centered but much takes on international news and fills in all the background when discussing issues.

[madokie]

14. I remember when we had much better coverage but it has been

a long time since we had good honest news. By seeing the warts one can get a feel for what is really happening.

[madokie]

11. they will throw a little tidbit in every once in a while to keep our

interest but thats all. If it wasn't the local news in the paper I would have quit them long ago. Just not too many places on the net for that.

[Lars39]

12. And they cover it all in a calm, sane, rational manner.

When we used to have Directv, I would purposely have Link on in the background when guests came over.
It was a real eye opener to those used to US 'news'.

[madokie]

15. Good Idea, something I can do.

[nonconformist]

17. Yep. No flashy graphics, no boogyman scare tactics

No "what you're eating for dinner could be deadly! Story at 11" shit.

Just real, respectable, fact-based journalism.

[Kansas Wyatt]

16. Move along, no news

Not much news this time of year, really, there's nothing to see and stay off the internet.

Your Great Decider is taking care of you, don't worry about anything. Great Decider will contact the media when something breaks about those evildoer liberals.

[jdelullo]

22. I don't understand

I have no idea why some disappearances are news and others aren't. There was an 18 year old girl a few miles south of me who went missing about 2 years before Halloway under very odd circumstances. Certainly if the media wanted to they could make a great story about it. Or at least a Lifetime movie. She still has no been found, no one has been arrested, but its not even on our local news anymore, let alone national. I jsut don't see why some stories are taken to the extreme while others are left behind, even though the circumstances are similar.

[madokie]

23. I think they just pick and choose their stories and run with the ones that

have legs. Anyways welcome to DU, hope you enjoy yourself here. Together we will all rise from this quagmire called bush* world.