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European news versus US news
Nov. 16th, 2015 06:17 pmI get subjected to the news twice a week when I visit a friend who watches it almost religiously, and today they just kept going on, and on, and ON about the Paris attacks and ISIS, and after over an hour of this constant harping on about one single goddamn subject, I remembered something that puts the US news in an interesting context:
I used to watch BBC news on PBS years ago, and I watched it often enough that now, years later, I could tell you exactly how the BBC news would have compared to today's national news. They would have covered the Paris attacks for, like, 15 or 20 minutes tops, and then gone on to something else. Whereas the US news picks the bloodiest, nastiest, most horrifying news item and just beats that dead horse until they're pounding on equine bone dust, and then just keep on beating that dead horse until there's no bone dust left anymore. And that, more than anything, is why I loathe and detest the US news.
Also, I don't remember there being any of those stupid pointless cutesy human interest stories on it, like "Your gonads will explode with glee when you see this puppy dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller" and other such bullshit. Because the BBC news is about actual news, or was last I saw it, and the US news is just pointless infotainment.
I used to watch BBC news on PBS years ago, and I watched it often enough that now, years later, I could tell you exactly how the BBC news would have compared to today's national news. They would have covered the Paris attacks for, like, 15 or 20 minutes tops, and then gone on to something else. Whereas the US news picks the bloodiest, nastiest, most horrifying news item and just beats that dead horse until they're pounding on equine bone dust, and then just keep on beating that dead horse until there's no bone dust left anymore. And that, more than anything, is why I loathe and detest the US news.
Also, I don't remember there being any of those stupid pointless cutesy human interest stories on it, like "Your gonads will explode with glee when you see this puppy dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller" and other such bullshit. Because the BBC news is about actual news, or was last I saw it, and the US news is just pointless infotainment.
