same old same old

I caught most of the CNN debate tonight between Hillary and Obama ... what amazes me is that I had no idea it was scheduled to happen. I am plugged in all day to news -- radio, Internet, TV -- but am not loyal to any cable news outfit ... so was CNN the only place to learn there was a debate on CNN tonight?? it's almost as if they didn't want people tuning in. and there was not even much of a reason to, it's not like the candidates got to explore their differences or explain themselves to the public. it's all packaged and pre-tested and pointless. very discouraging

and the most important question that needed to be asked was of course ignored: why were both Hillary and Obama absent, failing to vote on the bill that just came out of the Senate including retroactive immunity for the telecom companies in relation to the FISA revisions ... McCain was there, voted the wrong way, but he was there. They should be asked to explain why they were not and how they could allow that to happen on such a vital issue (that gets zero attention so people don't know anything about it and if it isn't covered on TV then it must not really be important -- THAT is the false logic I am compelled to combat ... the media is not covering anything other than what makes money for the shareholders, it's a business, a corporation, not the check on government it was intended to be ... forget about the warnings on cigarettes and Chantix and everything else, TVs and any other electronic device that people use for news should come with a huge caution sign telling people that they cannot rely on them for information -- do NOT get your news here! (what if something actually happened when you had no service on your Blackberry??)

oh and I realized that I wrote about Chez getting fired from CNN but had not specified why ... for writing a blog : )