My thinking this day has moved beyond berating singly vacuous incidents in the MSM like Michael Jackson's death and the over-the-top bemoaning of the passing of 92-year-old Walter Cronkite.
What is increasingly apparent is that the main stream media will, whenever possible, inflate a non-news story beyond all reason as an excuse not to report anything that resembles actual news. "If we are 'covering' Michael Jackson," an NBC corporate head might say, "we won't have to mention Iraq or Afghanistan or the way Shell is treating Nigerians in the Niger River delta (insert your true news story here)."
These events are not tragedies for the MSM, they are opportunities to further avoid mentioning real, hard but tough news in favor of missing blonds. It's incredible but unmistakably true.
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