In the past 2.5 hours, CNN has published 8 news articles about Wikileaks. Two of those discuss what should happen to the US government employee who leaked the documents and four articles discuss the wherabouts and warrant for the founder’s arrest after two women filed rape charges against him.
- The federal employee who released the info will stand trial.
- The founder of wikileaks who allegedly sexually assaulted two women will stand trial.
These two “stories” that currently have 80% of the content about Wikileaks on CNN, FoxNews and MSNBC are a distraction. This is more of the same crap that we see all of the time.
When I turn on the news today, I haven’t heard a peep about what the leaked documents actually contain and, in typical American fashion, I’m not going to spend 2 weeks going through all 100,000+ documents to read all about it. I trust and put my faith in journalists to give me the key points. In fact, that first time I’ve heard actual quotes and break down is when John Stewart poked fun at the documents on Comedy Central. He told me more than any other news network about the contents of these documents.
The point is the meat & potatoes. It’s about what’s been said and what has been leaked.
Instead, everyone is tied up in this Australian guy having sex with two girls and the fact that a government official leaked the documents to the alleged rapist. Who gives a crap?
I wish we could go back to focusing on real news. Not on wikileaks, not on their business practices or warrants or the fact that the US is considering labeling the company as a terrorist group. Let’s stop worrying about that.
I’d like to, for once, get the news without it going through 10 filters and dealing with distractions to what’s really happening.
I can guarantee you that the day the Bush Tax Cuts are extended or are allowed to lapse pending the Senate vote in a few weeks, we’ll hear more about Obama’s 10 stitches after a match of basketball and tips for losing weight and “making those new years resolutions count after a word from our sponsors.”
News media is broken. So broken.
Update: BTW, there’s so much more info available on Aljazeera’s English site than on the US news networks combined. Also, they have less advertisements.