Saturday, January 16, 2010

CNN = Fox News = The Devil; keywords for Google

So I just looked at the latest CCN poll =>

"Should Haitians in the U.S. be granted temporary protected status?"

Results –

56%, or 129,949 say 'yes'

44%, or 100,759 say 'no'

As of this day, I vow to stop reading CNN because I find it difficult for me to accept that truly 44% of Americans actually are so heartless to even grant TEMPORARY protected status to Haitians currently in this country illegally (including those whose visas are currently expiring). Shall we deport them to their home that is gone, crowding the airspace and slowing the arrival of planes full of aid, while putting more strain on the U.S. military personnel who is securing the airport in the midst of the lawlessness that permeates an area after devastation? Should we deport them to where, due to a tremendous lack of basic resources, even the international aid and disaster response teams there trying to save lives are told they must be self-sufficient? Should we send them more people to save?

Also, CNN's incessant reference to 'stupid deaths' – implying that the U.S. did not respond fast enough or effectively which is causing more death (an obvious strategic decision to mute the efforts of our current president and/or to capitalize by creating the same sense of ineptitude that we witnessed during the previous administration's delayed and ineffective response to Katrina) – is too much for me to handle. 'Stupid' is an administration not funding the maintenance of a levy when areas are below sea level, or not responding, even locally, with aid for days; 'stupid' is not an immediate contribution of $100M in resources and military who reach another island nation's shores, whose infrastructure is completely gone, in time to pull survivors from the rubble. I think the average American should be able to understand that… maybe not the average CNN viewer. I just hope my loyal viewership to date has not made me dumber…

CONCLUSION: CNN is now Fox News... and both are the devil. Maybe it has been for some time... but my obsession to continually refresh for its punctual reporting slowed my acceptance of that truth. I wonder if it makes me a terrorist if I'm switching to Al-Jazeera?


 

1 comment:

  1. Peace, my darling son. And BBC may be a better souce of global thought.
    Or NYTimes.com
    Love u

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