Industrie Toulouse

	Tuesday, November 5, 2002

Media Virus
I realized this evening why I felt so queezy about elections today. It wasn't just the choices / decisions. There are some good people worth voting for, there are some good initiatives worth voting for, everything is going to balance itself out some way or another. There will be no overwhelming frightening majority and HOPEFULLY there will be enough moderates on one side or the other to keep The Right in check.

But it's the media. It's such bullshit. It's pictures, it's not news. It's speculation, it's not news. You can learn as much watching a half hour of the daily show as watching a day of MSNBC/FoxNews/CNN because at least the Daily Show admits they're fake.

Watching CNN say "with just 12% (o.k., so it was 63) of precincts reporting, we give race foo to Greedy McGreedGreed". "Oh, and since they're not giving us their exit poll information, we at CNN/MSNBC/FoxNews have deployed our own pollsters whom we trust oh-so-much more, so you know that we know the results of the democratic process better than anyone".

Away from all of that, HBO's Journeys with George is a fairly interesting documentary. And there's no crawl at the bottom of the screen.
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