As the public is fed constant pabulum, like this:
As the latest signal of Michael Jackson’s apparent financial difficulties, one of the unindicted co-conspirators in the child molestation case against the pop star intends to slap a lien Friday on Jackson’s Neverland ranch, NBC News has learned.
F. Mark Schaffel, a gay porn producer who also produced two unaired “rebuttal” videos meant to counter the negative publicity from the 2003 documentary, “Living With Michael Jackson,” is seeking to ensure he is repaid what he claims are at least $3 million in outstanding debts: $1 million for production of the two videos, and more than $2 million in personal loans, payments and gifts for such famous Jackson friends as Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando.
I wonder if Dan Abrams will report this:
Under sharp questioning at a hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Mr. Goss sought to reassure lawmakers that all interrogations “at this time” were legal and that no methods now in use constituted torture. But he declined, when asked, to make the same broad assertions about practices used over the last few years.
Well, whether or not Dan Abrams reports it, I for one am glad the Senate is looking into this issue. It sure beats their House colleagues, who I believe embarrassed themselves yesterday by grandstanding before the national media with that ridiculous panel of baseball players. Don’t get me wrong– I think steroids are evil and as a die-hard baseball fan I am furious that the records of the late-90s look so aberrant in the context of MLB history– but Sammy Sosa has no more business testifying before a Congressional committee than does Michael Jackson. Or will that be next?
I wanted to write “McGuire is such an asshole. I wish the ghost of Roger Maris would kick him in his shriveled balls.”
But then I realized I’m the host of this site and I have to mind my manners.
And everyone would wonder what you had against a nice guy like Al McGuire ; )… I think you mean “McGwire is such an asshole and he has shriveled balls.” In that case, nobody would argue with you.
what you said.
we’re at 98,000 hits for the week. And we only opened Sunday night. We might do 140,000 hits in the first full week. I think that is about the same as the great Juan Cole is getting.
I like this idea as a regular feature…
A compare and contrast between the pablum of TVNews and the information people need to be connected as good citizens.