politics, war, media

i really wanted to avoid being political with this thing. i usually can't make up my mind when i have to decide where i stand on an issue anyway. i think for the most part i'm liberal....but just moderately. i love rudy giuliani and john mccain and i also like tom daschle for pointing out that the president isn't always right.

i see the 'greater good' that this war is all about. i just don't like being around for the actual war part. death and dying bothers me no matter who it is. i'm not one of those idiot peace freaks that protests in the middle of the street. i just sit back and fear for the worst. when i'm older and wiser, then i'll realize why the united states feels like they have to be in everyone's business all the time. it's scary to even say you're not 100% pro-war. even my parents got hostile in a public restaurant when i said that i wasn't completely behind it.

what really entertains me right now is the media though. they all thought they were awesome with their embedded reporters and their fancy playstation2ish graphics. now they are running stories on how the media isn't necessarily the 'big picture.' i don't really watch much of the coverage (and i've quit all together watching local news for something besides weather), but i flipped by ABC last night with peter jennings and they were doing some story about how all the networks had the same info and used the same screen layout with the same dramatic pictures to outline nothing. you see a boring general talking in a little box on the left and on the right is some smoke and fire from baghdad which actually occurred three days ago. it's all for ratings points. and what's strange is that the big ratings season (sweeps) isn't until May.

and on this other show i watch, boston public, they had this rant about how the media loves to focus on people suffering. fear factor does it for cash, katie couric always interviews grieving parents who've just lost one of their kids, joe millionaire lied to people, then kicked them off one by one, only to disappoint in the end (sidebar: that guy was so ugly. still is. shame on cosmo). it's true! really sad, but true! so why are we so cautious to show dead people in the war when we're jumping at the chance to interview dead soliders wives/parents/children?

so whatever.

listening to: refrigerator hum
shoes of choice: no earthly idea. barefoot now though.

now back to regular programming...