{"id":143,"date":"2005-09-03T21:27:58","date_gmt":"2005-09-04T05:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/09\/03\/mainstream-media-finally-fed-up-with-government-claptrap\/"},"modified":"2005-09-03T21:27:58","modified_gmt":"2005-09-04T05:27:58","slug":"mainstream-media-finally-fed-up-with-government-claptrap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/2005\/09\/mainstream-media-finally-fed-up-with-government-claptrap\/","title":{"rendered":"Mainstream media finally fed up with government claptrap?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"050902_AngryAndersonCooper.jpg\"I was watching CNN when Anderson Cooper finally got sick of Senator Mary Landrieu’s brown-nosing of Congressional colleagues and interrupted to tell her that bodies were being eaten by rats in Waveland, Mississippi and nobody there really gave a rat’s ass about political backslapping. Cooper said:<\/p>\n

“Excuse me, Senator, I’m sorry for interrupting. I haven’t heard that, because, for the last four days, I’ve been seeing dead bodies in the streets here in Mississippi and to listen to politicians thanking each other and complimenting each other, you know, I got to tell you, there are a lot of people here who are very upset, and very angry, and very frustrated\u2026. It kind of cuts them the wrong way right now, because literally there was a body on the streets of this town yesterday being eaten by rats.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

(Here’s the transcript<\/a> and here’s the video<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

The LA Times<\/a> and Slate<\/a> have interesting stories on how some broadcast journalists are ditching their chummy chit chat and finally saying what the rest of us are thinking.<\/p>\n

It’s nice to see at least a few folks in the US MSM seriously challenging the official lies and stonewalling of politicians, but I doubt this is a revolution.<\/p>\n

In fact, in midst of the so-call “rebellion of the talking heads,” The New York Times<\/i> reprinted without contradiction Bush’s false claim that nobody “anticipated the breach of the levees”<\/a> and ABC News was downplaying the Bush administration’s failure to prepare for and respond to Hurrican Katrina<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was watching CNN when Anderson Cooper finally got sick of Senator Mary Landrieu’s brown-nosing of Congressional colleagues and interrupted to tell her that bodies were being eaten by rats in Waveland, Mississippi and nobody there really gave a rat’s ass about political backslapping. Cooper said: “Excuse me, Senator, I’m sorry for interrupting. I haven’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[662],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/ross\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}