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 | Blast Heard in NYC; Hype to Follow? |
So a woman decides not to get married and to visit Vegas without telling her mommy or daddy and CNN does wall-to-wall coverage, all day.
I don’t have cable in my home, so I don’t know what’s happening now or what will follow, but you know that in the control rooms of CNN and FOX managers are planning, framing breathless footage of the scene where…
“… um, ok, no one was hurt and nothing was harmed, except some glass, and um… we’ve still got video, though… better put some red graphic around that, Barney! and cue the snare drums! And make sure Belinda practices her “serious” face! Then, um…
… ok, let’s pull our “experts” and “consultants” out of retirement to talk about the 5,942 different things that could have happened.
Oh, and, Louise? Can you ask Frank to go online and check the terror color code? We can talk about that some.
Roll hype!”
Yeah. That’ll fill the day.
So someone who has cable, tell me; am I right or am I wrong?
[Update: Oh, this is going to be harder for them to pull off than I thought! Top story status on CNN.com is being given to an incident with a “novelty-type grenade!” Then again, it didn’t just bust a window or two, it broke off the corner of a flower box! Quick! Run to the hills! The media circus is coming! The media circus is coming!]
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Ergh. Stupid mainstream media pampering the instinct to pay attention to potentially dangerous things.
So much trouble talking about good things.
Comment by HareTrinity — 5/5/2005 @ 7:24 am
Oh my god! It’s an improvised, firecracker terrorist!
Comment by furrjen — 5/5/2005 @ 8:18 am
Grenade explosions in New York City
Two grenades exploded in NYC this morning at 3:35 AM outside the British Consulate on 3rd Avenue and 51st Street. They were inside of a cement flowerbox in front of the building. The grenades are being called “make-shift,” being more home-made than o…
Trackback by Slant Point — 5/5/2005 @ 9:52 am
NYC Brit Bombing
Could this have been a “dry run” for something larger? Was the UK election used as a diversion?
Trackback by GOP and the City — 5/5/2005 @ 9:58 am
Bomb In NYC…Just Hype?!
Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print. Ok, so a bomb went off outside the British Consulate in Manhattan today.
Trackback by Liberteaser — 5/5/2005 @ 10:22 am
Looks like the right wing nuts are flying off the handle that anyone DARES to point out that a flower box being blown up by a couple of oversized firecrackers is not a national crisis. Check out those trackbacks. They’re livid!
Comment by furrjen — 5/5/2005 @ 2:06 pm
Of COURSE they’re livid! Wouldn’t YOU be livid if YOUR provocation and YOUR propaganda effort ended up sounding like some high school student’s effort to get a day off from school with the old “Bomb Scare” tactic? And everyone ended up LAUGHING at you for such an ameteurish effort?
Comment by mike — 5/5/2005 @ 2:14 pm
I was right! They needed a red border to make it look menacing. See?
Also notice the ambulance to make it all look extra scary and important? Major crime scene, folks: there was a gardening container that sacrificed one of its corners in the War on Terra!
The “U.N. Worker Being Questioned” is an extra-nice right-wing conspiratorial touch.
Comment by J. Matthew — 5/5/2005 @ 2:50 pm
Yes, why the ambulance when no one was hurt?
Did the little pansies in the flower pot need to go to the emergency room?
Comment by jingo — 5/5/2005 @ 8:29 pm
Wait, this was seriously an issue?
I thought it was a joke! Let’s hope the fundamentalists pray to their god to help save them and future generations of flower pots. Between ranting that anyone who now doesn’t use flower pots is being unpatriotic.
Comment by HareTrinity — 5/6/2005 @ 7:18 am
HT, what country are you in again? And how hard is it to get citizenship there?
Comment by random42 — 5/6/2005 @ 1:05 pm
England? Not sure. People keep complaining that it’s too easy, but every country has a set of people who do that.
We’re pretty crowded, though.
Comment by HareTrinity — 5/7/2005 @ 4:30 pm