Reply #35: My local paper is run by a bunch of IDIOTS!!

[beachmom]

This morning, I figured I would look at the paper first before the blogs, because with such a big story I do like to go to the MSM who have reporters in Iraq. And what was on the front page of my paper? The lottery winners. And a kooky, stupid pro-gun law passed by the state assembly. And parents monitoring what their kids eat at schools. And something about the ports. So, I figure, okay, it's on page 2. No. I turn, turn, turn, and finally on A14, they have an article by the AP, and a sort of same old same old violence in Iraq medium sized headline. THIS is why * is still our president. There are people who do dedicate themselves to reading their local paper every day, who think themselves informed citizens. These are not lazy Fox viewers, laying on the couch waiting to be entertained by O'Reilly; these people take the time to read when so many people don't. And yet, had they done their duty and read the paper today, they would have no f***ing clue what just happened in Iraq. A14 ain't gonna cut it. Since most of us are not familar with the Shi'ite sect of Islam and all of their beliefs and shrines, it is the media's JOB to explain these things to a non-Muslim public, and they failed.

Sigh, sigh, sigh.