JACKO COVERAGE

JACKO COVERAGE
LEAVES NO TIME FOR NEWS

By: John David Powell



No sound came from the big screen TV dominating the far end of the
dining area, but the CNN graphics told the distasteful story that made
the over-cooked fish sticks on my plate look appetizing. I learned if
I stayed at the ranch Tuesday, I could watch "continuous" coverage of
the Michael Jackson Memorial on CNN.

I’m not sure what was the most disturbing: a global cable news network
spending god-knows-how-much money in its continuing coverage of the
death of a drug-addled musician whose last hit was toward the end of
the last century, or clowns in the newsroom not knowing the difference
between "continuous" and "continual". (Continuous means unbroken.
Think a snake’s hisssss.)

Of course, the newsroom illiterati may be correct. They may be
foisting upon their viewers an unbroken coverage of the sights,
sounds, and sickness of Jacko’s L.A. memorial service. No reason to
doubt that. Just take a look at CNN’s Web page (which will up their
hit count, so maybe you should just take me at my word.). The Breaking
News banner headline right now tells me the service will feature
Mariah Carey, Usher, and Stevie Wonder. Be still my heart!

The lead story covers those who won tickets to the event. And the top
news story as of this writing is Stuart Smalley going to the U.S.
Senate. Hey, I would have used the senator’s real name, but I’m just
reporting how CNN headlined it.

So, I got to thinking about what real news CNN chose not to cover in
depth today, or Tuesday, for that matter.




Seven U.S.Marines died Monday in Afghanistan as thousands of Devil
Dogs continue their massive operation against the Taliban, our former
allies against the Soviet Union. Meantime, a terrorist blew up himself
and his vehicle outside the gate of NATO’s main base in the region,
taking two civilians with him and injuring 14 others.

But on CNN, it’s all Jacko, all the time.

Over in Nigeria, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta
took credit for an attack on a Chevron oil pipeline and the seizure of
a chemical tanker and its six-member crew over the weekend. Terrorist
attacks in the Niger River delta have cut more than 20 percent of
Nigeria’s oil exports since 2006. By the way, Nigeria is the fifth top
exporter of oil to the United States and is the leading oil producer
in Africa.

But on CNN, we can watch Jacko’s fans world wide with Facebook.

Leftist leaders in Central and South America Monday continued their
political and military strong arming of Honduras, increasing the
likelihood of war in the nation that kicked out its thug president for
trying to circumvent the country’s constitution. Monday, Honduran
troops blocked an airport runway to keep Manuel Zelaya from landing in
a plane provided by Venezuela’s chief cabron Hugo Chavez, who supplied
the ballots and ballot boxes for Zelaya’s foiled attempt to hold an
illegal referendum on his bid to keep his job beyond the four-year
term limit, a la Chavez. Honduran lawmakers and the country’s Supreme
Court got their bellies full of Zelaya after he led a violent mob to a
military base where they stole and distribute the illegal ballots.
When last seen, Zelaya, along with the U.N. General Assembly’s leftist
president Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, was heading to El Salvador for
some political snogging with that nation’s new communist president
Mauricio Funes.

Meanwhile, Argentina’s president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner has
more trouble on her hands than a failing national economy. Word out of
Rio this week is that the swine flu has killed more people in that
country than in any other South American nation. Argentina’s N1H1
death rate is three times the world average. And the winter flu season
is just starting.

On CNN, special primetime coverage Tuesday will feed the belly of
those who starve for continuous Jacko jibberjabber.

Israel’s top spy says Saudi Arabian leaders would ignore Israeli jets
flying over the kingdom to take out Iran’s nuclear sites. Vice
President Joe Biden says his boss wouldn’t put up a fuss if that
happened. And former U.S. United Nations ambassador John Bolton says
the Saudi blind-eye is entirely logical, adding Arab leaders would
stomp around in public, but would give thumb-ups in private to the
removal of Iran’s nuclear threat.

On CNN, we learn scalpers are selling Jacko memorial tickets online.

And, in Gaffney, S.C., lawmen think they have a serial killer in their
midst after a teenage gunshot victim died over the weekend, the fifth
murder victim in about a week.

While on CNN, we learn picking up Jacko memorial tickets is a breeze.

Mundus vult decipi


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John David Powell is a six-time winner of the Houston Press Club’s
Lone Star Award for Internet Opinion Writingt, a communication
professional, and contributor to the Christian Millennium History
Project. He is a regular columnist for Ether Zone.

John David Powell can be reached at: johndavidpowell@xxxxxxxxx

Visit John's website at: www.geocities.com/johndavidpowell

Published in the July 9, 2009 issue of Ether Zone.
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