violence is only going to make us worse off in the long run.

I consider them pinheads.

But as unpopular as Trump already is, there will be a Peace Movement in this country like no one has ever seen if he starts a war.

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who knows which shelf the butter is on.

People who go orgasmic over missiles, bombs and war have something seriously wrong with them.

Back then the discussion of Phil Donahue getting canned for Bush critcism was limited. It's good the WaPo is starting this.

A local Philly 50+year "emeritus" reporter had a hard-on yesterday with the thought that maybe, just maybe the "seriousness" of the office was taking hold.

They fucking STILL don't get it.

Link to tweet

the media IS the enemy of the people. as a whole they are the chief instruments of propagandizing, especially, but not exclusively, the extremely gullible american people. Sometimes even relatively smart people succumb.

Shooting, stabbing, gassing, pummeling, blowing up something in both defense and righteous anger gives Homo Sapiens the warm fuzzies. The villains among murderous apes provide much entertainment in fantasy and reality. Even when you know what they are (such as Trump) there is that ape fascination at violence.

“I think Donald Trump became president of the United States last night,” declared Fareed Zakaria on CNN, after firing of 59 missiles at a Syrian military airfield late Thursday night."

Who knew Mr Zakana had the authority to launch missiles?

But kudos to the WaPo and Margaret Sullivan for not joining in the adulation.

-- Mal

there are exceptions. But in general, they are Pathetic, Inc.

ABC is the only major news outlet that really went with the drumpf told Russia ahead of time story. I heard it referenced once very briefly last night on CNN, but only once and it was just a mention of asking why is Russia reacting so strongly when we let them know in plenty of time to move anything important and we didn't bomb the runways so Russia could still fly sorties. That fact right there of not bombing the runways shows that this is a fake flag operation, bombing just the hangers in one, repeat, one airfield after giving notice that we were bombing that exact place. Nope, this is just a Pootie drumpf show to sideline the real investigation into collusion

the military guest they had - "it's not likely that there was any runway damage with the numbers and types of missiles"

15 minutes later - Brian Williams - "the cratered runways"

So breathlessly exciting for him. get out the handkerchief. mop the brow.

It is the need to sensationalize - and also the way that the media swings nationalistic and cheerleading in this type of situation. Since I've not watched TV in 10 years, I found it utterly bizarre but sadly deja vu of the previous blunderwars

I remember working at one of the local TV news departments as a writer/segment producer. All kinds of news, that one night. But guess what we led with? An apartment house fire at a building that was at most three stories tall. Because we had the video. Video! Of Flames! Burning! Burning Building! FLAMES! OOOOhhh - whaddo we see?

I once posted here about the three main lessons I learned, on the job, as I started getting into news, professionally. Basic questions you should ask yourself as a reporter, when covering a story, or camera crew, or editor, or producer of the newscast that night:

#1: What happened? Learned that as an intern at a big local full-service AM station that had a large news department.

#2: Who cares? Learned that as a just-hired weekend anchor on a big local FM rock station.

#3: What do we see? Learned that as a writer/segment producer at the local TV station. Visuals-R-Us. Pictures. What are the PICTURES?

They will not cover anything like this:

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/04/army-attack-prompts-mass-exodus-south-sudan-170407161313821.html

have no idea where anywhere else is.
Therefore anywhere else doesn't exist.

US public opinion was the target, not Assad.

All positive about strike. Especially two women doctors. F & B both say going forward is especially dangerous. The doctors are captured in a nightmare.

the squeeky guy, the blond woman with the perfectly symmetrical face,
et al or rather 'et mostly,' are all just a bunch of shit for integrity, rich script readers..

Because with all the evidence of collusion with Russia, anyone could see a wag the dog scenario coming from a mile away. Hell, Trump himself described it in his tweets.

So now we have a clearly ineffective missile strike, and a (fake?) beef with Russia? Now what? Is trump absolved now? Will the investigations continue?

I'll admit, I had never really paid much attention to him. I typically think that most "nightly news" anchors are just script readers anyway. But listening to him.... I had to resist the urge to change the channel because Rachel was ALSO there, and I wanted to hear what Rachel had to say. But that guy is genuinely dumb. Twice I heard him say the Syrian airport was "cratered." Twice different guests that came on said the airway was likely not cratered. But he couldn't stop insisting the airport was cratered by the missiles.

so they needed something to praise him for

not profitable.

They also support US Imperialism - who the fuck is a sovereign state telling another sovereign state to behave or else as if they were some superpower's child - and the thrive on American exceptionalism. Laws, national or international be damned. Rules do not apply to the US.

And since wars cause lots of bleeding...

of themselves. They don't have any better foresight than that.. or hindsightt?! That fucking shallow? Guess so.

Mahalo, spanone