Media to America: Disaster Seen as Catastrophe Looms

And the AP's solution to the problems they "discovered"...

...will be to sue you for quoting them on a--*gasp*--blog.

And they wonder why more and more people are ignoring them.

snowed in of TX @ Jun 23, 2008 15:53:12 PM

"World Ending" Article

Thank you so much for discussing the "World Ending" AP article. I read many magazines, newspapers, and blogs. This one has to be one of the worst so-called "news" articles ever written. I have written AP, Comcast for highlighting it on their webpage, and my local newspapers for using many AP articles. As far as I am concerned, AP at the top of an article means "don't bother to read this piece of slanted, partisan lies." I thought they had topped themselves the week before with their "Bush Administration Encourages Oil Companies to Kill Polar Bears" or something like that headline. Deep deep in the article they finally came through with the information that something like 2 polar bears have been killed by oil company activity since the 1960s. I don't understand why you news people aren't more concerned about the increasing loss of trust in the stuff you put out. The rampant attempt by many so-called news people and organizations to act like Joseph Geobbels is the most frightening thing I see going on today.

of NM @ Jun 23, 2008 15:43:00 PM

The dumbest news article ever written

James. I'm so glad you wrote this on you blog. I am thinking of putting it on my own Web site www.billiniraq.com as the dumbest article ever written. Seriously, the war in Iraq isn't ``raging.'' I'm in Iraq now, and I can tell you it's the ``mellowest'' since March 2004. The writers are inane and should be fired. The editors should be fired as well. People feel more insecure when commodity prices spike, which happens every 30 years, almost like clock work. And nobody knows who Horatio Alger is, nor do they explain who he was in the article. Ten years, no, five years from now, the commodity spike will have eased and globalization will be in its third decade. Pethokoukis is right to call out these clowns.

William Murray @ Jun 23, 2008 15:17:30 PM

Hey, these people in the media have to do everything in their power to get Barack Obama elected. And guess what's going to happen if and when he gets in office? America's better days are yet to come, now that the Messiah has been resurrected to heaven.

Chris of AZ @ Jun 23, 2008 15:03:03 PM

its the metaphysical foundation of liberalism

to be pessimistic about human innovation and life. The world is going into the toilet = people on their own can't save themselves = bigger government role. The counterpart of that assumption is that where people and populations operate on a bell-curve (1st semester stats), always argue and govern from the worse edge of that curve.

The press loves this, because headlines are their business. Consequently the press will always be at odds with a country that was founded on the optimistic assumption that people can handle their own affairs and overcome adversity on their own. (1st, 2nd, 4th Amendments). Thus, the press will tend to headlines/pessimism, the citizenry will tend to handling their own affairs/optomism.

pashley of CO @ Jun 23, 2008 15:02:07 PM

I'm so glad...

...you wrote aobut this piece of junk from AP. I read it over the weekend after clicking on Comcast's AP "News" tab. It's a lot of things, but it ain't news. Who keeps these guys in business? How do we go about putting them out of business?

R. Straight of NM @ Jun 23, 2008 14:47:19 PM

For the media, things are spinning out of control

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/23/business/media/23paper.html?_r=2&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print&adxnnlx=1214217617-2pyatWHZ9dqhQLGUuRz27w&oref=slogin

Newspaper revenues are down 20% in the last two years, and the other MSM are facing similar problems. From where they're sitting, the economy is in full melt-down, worse than in the 1970's.

Steven C. Den Beste of OR @ Jun 23, 2008 14:46:32 PM

McCain v. Obama

It fits perfectly into the script. If you believe all is lost and the country needs to start over again Obama is your man. For the cult of Obama, worse is truly better.

sjm of OK @ Jun 23, 2008 14:44:32 PM