(another) "High-stakes week confronts Obama" MSNBC

Oooh maybe this will be the HIGH-STAKES week when he finally fails

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High-stakes week confronts Obama

Dear M$NBC,

We all know there's a Black dude in the WH. The novelty is wearing off, K?

You'll see few as disappointed than me in your coverage of what passes for news these days. When Brian Williams stated last night (Friday September 18th, 2009) that George W* had better poll numbers "at this stage of his Presidency" than Obama, I nearly had a stroke. A simple statement, but as disingenuous as it could possibly be. President Obama isn't dealing with a country afflicted with the worst terrorist attack in world history, yet was being compared with a President who paid no attention to "Al Qaeda determined to strike within the U.S." and cries of "They're Here!" yet rode that convenient fallacy to the highest Presidential rating in recorded history.

While it was a subtle delivery of fact, it was also irresponsible and an despicable act of lousy journalism. It was your one and only chance to pull that diseased rabbit of 9/11 out of the hat, and you blew it.

You claim to be a news outlet, so please, report some news. There's a whole bunch of stuff going on where the President wouldn't even qualify as a sideshow attraction - Things that might actually hold the interest of the American people, except they haven't been informed yet. You report little but the latest manufactured or non-controversy regarding President Obama and, not only has the monotony become tiresome, but everyone else is carrying the exact same story and you're losing market share because you're too timid to break from the pack and report on the issues rather than manufacture them. In the meantime, your competitors go crazy with speculation.

All right, all right, so you've lost touch with whatever talent you may have had for investigative journalism. Eight years of reading WH faxes and press releases as news would dull the instincts of the best journalist, and you guys were never better than mediocre. But that's not a problem!

While you're easing back into your profession under the new Administration (unlike the old Administration where it required kneepads and lip balm), why not dig up some old stories that you knew about, but never covered: a war based on lies, WMDs that never existed, profiteering, contractors killing our soldiers while ripping off the DoD, contractors killing Iraqi citizens at will, the whole missing billions thing and on and on. Just the list of topics relating to the illegal invasion of Iraq is substantial enough for months of intense coverage, and that's just the beginning.

Sibel Edmonds has been waiting for your call, Tom Delay and Denny Hastert still haven't faced a jury and, despite all the fluff pieces you've done on Caribou Barbie, too few of our fellow citizens really know how deeply insane she is. You think Reverend Wright was "out there"? Chat up some of the "just folks" who attend Sarah Palin's church or any of her other social groups if you want to shock, amaze and entertain us. And she's not the only one. That whole C St. bunch is begging for your attention and the Teabaggers could provide a whole new genre of news bites with a comedic twist. Assuming the attendance in DC last Saturday was only 70,000, you could do ten Teabagger sound bites a day for over nineteen years. With the number of attendees Fox claims, you could spin off a whole other channel - or ten. The syndication profits could run into the Brazillions.

What I'm saying is: Stop trying to compete with Fox News on their own level. You don't want to go into that sewer, 'cause you'll end up living there. There is actual news out there, you just have to stop taking your cues from the other news channels and get out in the real world every now and then. Go independent. Even better, pick up the phone when it rings - then listen and investigate. We're calling.

DCKit

you should post this in Editorials or somewhere

great post
spot on