Thursday, September 08, 2005

Six Short Rants

6) Practically no one in the national media is picking the current two time defending champion New England Patriots to repeat! What is up with that?!

5) The World Series I want to see is Boston vs Houston! Houston has lights out pitching but cannot score a run to save their lives. 8 times they've failed to score when Clemens left the game having given up either zero or one run! Boston has unstoppable bats but their pitching is considered "passable." That's a match up I want to see!

4) The Boston Herald's continuing coverage of the Hurricane is "Katrina's Wrath." Hurricane's don't have wrath! Sure they have destruction and they leave suffering in their wake, but "wrath?" Let's stop sensationalizing the news!

3) On the FOX25 news at ten they reported about a man who barricaded himself in a house and had a standoff with police for a few hours. The police were forced to evacuate the neighborhood because they didn't' know if the man was armed. When the man (who was mentally unstable) was taken away in an ambulance the reporter said "You can see the ambulance removing the victim now and the neighbors can return to their homes having been held hostage by this police drama." Victim? The man who broke the law is a victim? Police drama? Did the police barricade this man in his home? Seems to me the victims were the neighbors, the drama was caused by the man in the house and the police saved them all. Anyone agree?

2) Now I risk contradicting my last to rants: Why was the successful rescue of an American hostage held by insurgents in Iraq since last November buried on page 25 of the Herald? Let's see what came before it: the Horoscopes, the Celebrity Pages, Stupid Human Trick try outs, 3 pages of Katrina's Wrath, a giant tomato, and a fugitive monkey. Yeah, US success in Iraq isn't news-worthy.

1) Can we please stop playing the blame game regarding Katrina. I'm not even going to go into who I think is at fault, who should be fired, or who should be held responsible. This is not the time to be pointing accusing fingers, this is the time to be offering helping hands!

These rants brought to you by my opinion.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

seems fox wants to have its cake and eat it too, trying to win the popularity of the little people whilst keeping firmly attached to the man.