That's it! I fuckin' HATE the news!

[Ki'esha Foxx]

Okay. We all know how the news likes to scare us now. As Jackie Kashian said, "Do Skittles cause VD? Find out at six". I was walking through my living room earlier, probably around six or so, and I hear something about being a little overweight. I'm a little overweight, so I listened for a second or two. The anchor, some guy who looks like the late bastard Peter Jennings, said something about how being even a little heavy can cause serious medical problems.

I've now completely had it with the evening news! They want nothing more than to scare us into depending on them for every little piece of info about health and medicine. 'Oh, great news people, I have a papercut. Should I out a Band-Aid on it? No? Why? It will cause my hand to get infected and eventually fall off like a leper's? As you say, oh mighty anchors. What should I do then? Soak it in axel grease? If that is your command.'

What the fuck is wrong with these news stations?! Do they really have nothing better to report on? Mel Gibson didn't do anything else of interest lately? Tom Cruise has regained some semblence of sanity and isn't spouting off his Scientology crap? How slow of a news day does it have to be to have an entire segment telling bigger people they need to lose weight or they'll die? We all know that being obese is not good, and having a lot of body fat is unhealthy. Any idiot knows this. But when people start saying things like, "You're twelve pounds overweight? Oh my freakin' God! You're going to have a heart attack in the next ten minutes if you don't lose that weight!" I begin to lose even more of what little faith I have in news programs.

So if anyone from a news station that does segments on medicine and health is reading this, take my two pieces of advice: 1) piss off, and 2) go play in traffic.

I'm done now. I just wanted to get that out.

[moviemaniac8210]

I can see your point. Those news fucks should keep there stories more on other subjects sometimes. Ok, I can see that people want America to "lose the weight", but come on. It seems that it's a big topic that anchors talk about on the news any more. All over the net and news are tests and things to see if your state is one of the states with a high population of fat people. Reports on how saftey commisions are making "plus size dummies" to test in car crashes, how someone way over weight might have to pay for two seats on a plane, blah blah blah. People that are overweight know they are overwieght, no one (including the nightly news) needs to point it out constantly. Everyone makes their own choices, alot of things could kill us. If being obese is one, so be it.

"Tonight at 10: Nicole Richie looks a fright in her dad's new music video! Has she lost more weight? And also, Do Americans eat more because of stress and how does your state rank on the chart of fattest states in the country? Take our poll and find out!"

Weight is always in issue though, if you're too fat or if you're too skinny the news will report on it. God Bless America :D

[powersauce]

I agree with Foxx. It's like their attitude is "All food is bad for you!" in these ridiculous news stories I've seen at times. No wonder I only go to Yahoo for news.

[BorderEevilIII]

I embrace any news reported but then again..... Whats reported makes me wonder.............



Paris Hilton is giving up sex................



rigggggggggght :rolleyes:




Paramount severs their ties with Tom Cruise.........






awwwwwww Oh No they Didn't!!!!! :D

[RustyRazor]

I endorse this thread.
The only way for them to "hook" you nowadays is to tell you "this species of cat will brutally kill you in your sleep. Find out which one at 11PM".
Ever notice recently that every news program has "BREAKING NEWS" at some point during the broadcast?
"Holy shi! It's breaking news! I can't turn from this! And I have to keep watching to find out which kind of cat will kill me in my sleep!"
"Meow?"
"I'm watchin' you, fucker! Wait until 11:15 comes!"


I try not to watch the news at all.
Sometimes, it's worse than the stuff people dream up.

[jackson13]

I always get a big chuckle out of those "Something in your house could kill you right now....tune in at 11 to find out what it is" type reports.







"The popcorn you're eating has been pissed in....film at 11."

[jolanar]

Yah it's scare tactics to get you to watch their news.

The good news however is that it is 90% avoidable. Don't watch local news. Simple as that. Local news is completely useless. If you insist on it, buy your local newspaper and I guarantee it is much better quality reporting than your TV news.

National news for the most part stays away from this. I think this is mostly due to the fact that national news actually has enough real information to fill an hour long show that comes one 5 days a week.

Local news usually plays 3 times a day, seven days a week. And lets face it, I don't care where you live there just isn't enough local news to fill that much time. This is where the retarded scare tactics come in.

[jaw2929]

Yea... It's called "fear and consumption"... You continue to put fear into the people who watch your bullshit, and they'll continue to consume it... They eat it all up with big shit-eating grins on their faces, asking for seconds without even thinking twice... It's fucking pathetic....

The news is anything but "new"... It's the same old horse-shit recycled over and over again... The majority of society tunes in, because they're sheep, and they'll be scared, and they'll eat any-fucking-thing that's fed to them.

[therealjohng]

Originally posted by jackson13
I always get a big chuckle out of those "Something in your house could kill you right now....tune in at 11 to find out what it is" type reports.


There is a great SNL skit with Jerry Seinfeld where all they do is shit like that.

[powersauce]

Originally posted by Trail_Blazer

The majority of society tunes in, because they're sheep, and they'll be scared, and they'll eat any-fucking-thing that's fed to them.

But enough about the music that teens these days listen to. LOL;)

[bigred760]

Welcome to my life, people. I work for a news network - in production though, nothing to do with the writing, reporting of it. I have to put up with a lot of this crap that's supposed to be important and/or newsworthy. I admit that some of the stuff is newsworthy: like the stuff going on in the Middle East and what not; but like Kiesha Foxx said - a lot of the times it's nothing but scare tactics: I once worked for a NBC affiliate in Virginia and they reported on the possibility of a tidal wave hitting the Virginia coast :rolleyes: - good grief.

[Ki'esha Foxx]

Originally posted by bigred760
I once worked for a NBC affiliate in Virginia and they reported on the possibility of a tidal wave hitting the Virginia coast :rolleyes: - good grief.

Holy shit! I live in Virginia. I hope I NEVER see that headline on the news, on the rare occassion that I watch the local channels.

[bigred760]

Originally posted by Ki'esha Foxx
Holy shit! I live in Virginia. I hope I NEVER see that headline on the news, on the rare occassion that I watch the local channels.

It was several years ago; though I have little doubt that station, and others like it are doing similar reports that are meant to come up with the worst possible situations and that we're all going to die a horrible gruesome death.

[Badbird]

I love how every "report" about... anything really that's supposed to be bad for you, like, say, eating such and such could give you prostate cancer, etc, etc, will always end with... "Some researchers disagree..."

So they basically are like "You're gonna fucking die! Or maybe not!"

I love how they just let everyone else do the work and they just read the press release, instead of actually doing fact checking and real reporting on their own.

They always say shit like "It's an interesting debate." Interesting meaning "we don't know shit about shit."

[bigred760]

Originally posted by Badbird
I love how every "report" about... anything really that's supposed to be bad for you, like, say, eating such and such could give you prostate cancer, etc, etc, will always end with... "Some researchers disagree..."

So they basically are like "You're gonna fucking die! Or maybe not!"

They have to be "unbiased." In other words, they have to give both sides of the issue. It's the ethical thing to do :D.


I love how they just let everyone else do the work and they just read the press release, instead of actually doing fact checking and real reporting on their own.

That's partially true; reporters due exist and go out and ask questions putting together stories and reports and what not. Producers in the newsroom due look up stories on an internet wire (Associated Press is the most popular :D) and reword it to put in their shows - usually to fill out time. They are supposed to double check stories for accuracy, but I have caught mistakes working in the industry as a prod. operator. *tsk *tsk