Sometimes News is not News !

Sometimes the stuff that passes for news, sadly just isn't news. Sometimes the angles portrayed by the news collectors are there just to fill in the space and not much more. it's all about advertising dollars and all about the advertisers and not really about things that interest normal people.

For example, in the Jerry Sandusky pedophile case they should tell us how badly he is going to be treated in prison. They should tell us how soon after he has been sent to jail that he will have black eyes. They should tell us when to expect the announcement that another prisoner has probably took him out. I'll bet hardly anybody feels sorry for the guy, or cares what happens to him. How he is preparing for his sentencing hearing is irrelevant I could care less. Maybe some of you out there actually do care however I don't think so.

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the news aggregators of which Google is one, Yahoo is one, ask.com is one, all figured that you need sections of news broke down into popular categories like trending news stories, news all about television, news all about politics and so forth. They all assume that you're not smart enough to figure out all on your own what the number one news story it that you are interested in is today they have to tell you . So all of them have a section called top news stories. I have to tell you any time Charlie Sheen has an entry in top news stories there something wrong with the way they gather news.

It makes me crazy.

You should be able to look anywhere for news content and even at news providers like CBS, NBC, ABC, MSNBC and all of them should be able to provide unfiltered news content that let you decide which story is the top story in your mind. Occasionally that actually happens but usually it is in a side content box and there are five or 10 stories and you get the pic the top one that you want to look at out of five or 10. In my view there are about two news content providers that do this . One is Reuters and the other one is the Associated Press.

You aren't smart enough to do it for yourself, obviously.

Thanks for reading my rant,

– big Mike

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