Saturday, June 30, 2007

I am watching MSNBC this morning. I don't know what made me turn on a news channel on a Saturday morning. If you haven't heard a jeep/land rover was driven into the airport in Glasgow that exploded. In an effort to save you, the reader the time I will tell you what is going on....on MSNBC, they are showing the burning jeep, over and over and over and over and finally put the bumper up that says "latest video" they said it was live, but it sure looked like that jeep was burning a reallllly long time. They arrested two people. The TSA has raised the United States Threat Level... we might be at Ernie at this point. The "journalist" just said this was "unsophisticated". What? They drivers drove a car into a building, it exploded, and that is unsophisticated? Sorry... MSNBC, but you are wrong.

Damage is done, they stole a jeep, plied it with explosive stuff and drove it into an airport. Pretty damn sophisticated. Sorry I disagree with you... orchestrated and that takes sophistication. Oh now they are saying it was deliberate action not an accident... you think?

This is not journalism, this is reactionism and this is really not worth watching. I hope that no one was hurt, I hope that no one gets hurt (the guys or gals arrested) and honestly I hate to say this, but Welcome to 2007 in the world. Unfortunately there is alot of extreme behaviour, it isn't isolated and there is a daily stress and threat level everywhere. They are blaming this on Al Queda of course. All I know is by watching this I am getting furious at the lack of true journalism on television news, its speculation and blame and fans the flames.

I need to change the channel and get my news internationally from someplace on the web that is more trusted.

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