Good lineup this week! Hope they don't have the presidents on opposite each other! LOL

and my life is infinitely richer for it.

3 times 52 is 156 so 1560 weeks is 30 years. 280 is 5 years so 1840 is 35 yeas. that is a long time.

though actually, I became incredibly disillusioned & disgusted with the American media during the Iranian Hostage situation, when all pretense at education and objectivity was discarded in favor of rampant jingoism and a pandering to emotions. It was a good thing Jimmy Carter was President. A lesser man might have been swayed to war by the agitated, ill-informed voices of the press.

I went back to college at that time, eventually wrote one of my senior thesis on the Iranians' ability to manipulate our press. I remember, on the title page, I placed a political cartoon, an image of the Ayatollah Khomeini playing with an American television cameraman as if he were a marionette. The caption below read, "The Ayatollah has America by its networks."

I have rarely watched television news since, and to this day only view clips from it on the internet, images not easily conveyed in print or a still photo -- the Japanese tsunami, for example.

to polish his "air quotes." They've had quite a workout this week and are looking a bit overworked.

Twenty years ago I knew plenty of people who watched them, especially Meet The Press. Even the repukes I know have given up on them. What's sad is that CNN keeps going full blast repuke, and their ratings continue down the tubes. Will they ever learn?

The standardized conservative hegemony is.