One of the leading news stories of yesterday, covered by most of the major television news shows was the following:
President Obama displays his keen reflexes and sense of precision by swatting a fly during a television interview.
Is it just me, or does this sound like something out of Pravda, the official newspaper of the old Soviet Union, from the '50s or '60s, as in:
Comrade Stalin displays his athletic prowess and keen marksmanship by squashing a bug during a recent press conference.
Other major stories in yesterday's news:
A pair of raccoons get stuck inside a soda machine.
and:
A pre-teen gets a stick through his throat in a freak accident.
Meanwhile . . . also in the news, by the way, the following story:
Demonstrators in Iran, protesting the apparently rigged outcome of recent elections, are shot upon and beaten up by the Iranian police.
A story which, incidentally, seems to owe more to amateur video, blogging and tweeting (on Twitter) than it does to conventional news sources.
Okay, so may be I'm exaggerating to make a point. But the question on my mind is: "When does the media stop pandering to the current administration, much as it pandered to the previous administration in the lead-up to the Iraq invasion, and start asking the difficult questions?"
Even David Gregory, one of the few stalwart pressmen with courage enough to stand up and object to the policies of the Bush administration, now panders to the Obama administration (on the Today Show) while the President squashes bugs and swats flies for photo ops on TV!
As I have been saying all along . . . so much for the media! To quote John McEnroe, "You canNOT be serious!"
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