Thursday, May 24, 2018

Morning news

At 6:00 this morning I tuned on the television and allowed three minutes of local news. IKR, I'm masochist, but they were talking about Trump.

1) Trump says North Korea Summit is off.

2) North Korea attacks Pence for comparing them with Libya.

3) Trump calls MS-13 animals, less than human.

4) Trump says NFL players who stay in the locker instead of rising for the Anthem maybe ought not live in America.

5) Trump said Comey disgraced the FBI.

Five items stated flatly with no further context and nothing about Trump's actual work. Then the camera switched to the panel of four news readers who each reached under their desk and put on a plastic red clown nose. With their noses pinched and speaking without nasal assistance, they spoke about how Red Nose Day was started in Britain and to date raised several million dollars for charity giving clarity and context to this fad they support.

This picture is some other news team, there were four on my screen.


4 comments:

edutcher said...

Li'l Kim will be back.

He thought Trump would fold like the rest.

Big.

Mistake.

Trooper York said...

The News Media is always wearing a clown nose. You usually can't see it.

ampersand said...

Except for the missing fourth, that's a picture of every news team. Notice more and more they are using white out for the men.

ricpic said...

Ditto what Troop said. Luckily I am sans TV so I don't have to endure wall to wall jejune. Luckily there's the internet. There are even books. I know, weird, right? I'm reading one about Hitler right now. The fascination with Hitler never ends. Who knows what that says about us but it's incontrovertible. Becoming Hitler by Thomas Weber. Weber's thesis being that Hitler wasn't particularly extreme politically, didn't hold strong views until he was triggered by the Versailles Treaty, "the stab in the back" as he saw it.