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Blogs Eric Reads
Media Idiocy
John Cole on the group of hacks and morons otherwise known as the American media establishment:
I guess Reverend Wright hasn’t said something stupid today. Seriously, I’ve seen a lot of stupid shit in CNN’s “Breaking News” header, but this really did it for me.
People are dying in Iraq. You need a credit check to buy gas. Your home belongs to the bank now. But stop the fucking presses, ‘cause there’s a pelican in a freakin’ tree!
I guess they need something to keep themselves busy when they aren’t penning alliterative headlines about lesbians.
Lesbians Sue Lesbians
If this lawsuit goes to court, it needs to be broadcast on the Internet.
Three islanders from Lesbos — home of the ancient poet Sappho, who praised love between women — have taken a gay rights group to court for using the word lesbian in its name.
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“My sister can’t say she is a Lesbian,” said [Lesbian... er, Lesbos resident] Dimitris Lambrou. “Our geographical designation has been usurped by certain ladies who have no connection whatsoever with Lesbos,” he said.The three plaintiffs are seeking to have the group barred from using “lesbian” in its name and filed a lawsuit on April 10. The other two plaintiffs are women.
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Lambrou said the word lesbian has only been linked with gay women in the past few decades. “But we have been Lesbians for thousands of years,” said Lambrou.
If the story isn’t funny enough already, check out these headlines from the British (and former-British) press:
Update: Oh my God, I can’t believe I missed this one:
The Issues That Matter
Sometimes, the traditional media really misses the issues that matter.
Right now, President Bush is in Africa on a “goodwill” (he still has some in Africa) tour of the continent. Today, he’s in Tanzania, where the big news should have been an almost $700 million grant to help the Tanzanian government stop the spread of malaria, a serious health problem in that country. CNN includes the details of the aid package in an article on the visit, but the headline and lede completely miss the point.
No, despite what you might be thinking, this clip isn’t from The Onion:
Don’t make the mistake of just reading the headlines on CNN, or you might get the impression that Bush’s big gift to Tanzania is Shaquille O’Neal’s shoes, not the millions of dollars being spent to help combat Tanzania’s disease-ridden populace.
Just in Case: AP Prepares Britney’s Obit
I generally don’t follow “celebrity news” because, well, there are lots of more important things going on. This, though, is truly fucked up. For the past month, the Associated Press–that’s no tabloid, folks–has been preparing Britney Spears’ obituary so they can get the jump when she kicks the bucket.
“We are not wishing it, but if Britney passed away, it’s easily one of the biggest stories in a long time,” AP entertainment editor Jesse Washington tells Us.
“I think one would agree that Britney seems at risk right now,” Washington adds. “Of course, we would never wish any type of misfortune on anybody and hope that we would never have to use it until 50 years from now…but if something were to happen, we would have to be prepared.”\
Anything for a scoop, I guess. I just hope that, when she does eventually pass, that her death doesn’t inconvenience the media.