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This is what passes for journalism?
Feb. 18th, 2008 01:31 pmWe have a fitness room at my job, and the other day I was on the stationary bike when a coworker came in and turned on the TV while he was on the treadmill.
It was primary coverage on CNN, and they had a segment about how some people are suggesting Obama's campaign has become a "cult of personality." Apparently, when he appears on stage, people in the audience scream, and some even cry, and several conservative pundits have implied there's something unseemly and inappropriate about this.
So, let's recap: Conservative writers are saying negative things about a liberal candidate. In other news, the earth continues to revolve around the sun.
WTF? Seriously, this is considered *news*? If an actual candidate said something negative about another candidate, that might be worth noting -- but these are media figures! This is not news!
On a completely unrelated topic, I have managed to pimp RM into Karen Traviss' Star Wars novels. He doesn't generally read science fiction (he's a swords-and-sorcery guy; we hang out in the same aisle of the bookstore browsing completely different books), but he's really enjoying the military camaraderie and the Mandalorian warrior ethos in her novels about the clone troops. We're both looking forward to her upcoming novel, Order 66 (named for ( spoilery material behind the cut )).
It was primary coverage on CNN, and they had a segment about how some people are suggesting Obama's campaign has become a "cult of personality." Apparently, when he appears on stage, people in the audience scream, and some even cry, and several conservative pundits have implied there's something unseemly and inappropriate about this.
So, let's recap: Conservative writers are saying negative things about a liberal candidate. In other news, the earth continues to revolve around the sun.
WTF? Seriously, this is considered *news*? If an actual candidate said something negative about another candidate, that might be worth noting -- but these are media figures! This is not news!
On a completely unrelated topic, I have managed to pimp RM into Karen Traviss' Star Wars novels. He doesn't generally read science fiction (he's a swords-and-sorcery guy; we hang out in the same aisle of the bookstore browsing completely different books), but he's really enjoying the military camaraderie and the Mandalorian warrior ethos in her novels about the clone troops. We're both looking forward to her upcoming novel, Order 66 (named for ( spoilery material behind the cut )).