Mainstream Media Found Dead Under a Karr

60Gunner

[60Gunner]

Well, for all us cynics out there, let us raise our glasses of whatever poison suits us in tribute to the late mainstream media.

As we cynics so inerrantly predicted, John Mark Karr is a great big non-story. His version of the JonBenet Ramsey murder- that is, his false confession- was proven to be as dubious as his masculinity. The only thing Karr is guilty of is being a really, really creepy dude. And the mainstream media has once again proven its utter irrelevance by shoving every other important story out of the way so that millions of slathering View-bimbos could get their daily fix of wierdness:

"John Mark Karr was teaching 2nd grade in Tailand! And John Mark Karr had his hair removed and wanted a sex change. Oh my God, this is earth shattering stuff! ...Oh, yeah, and some plane crashed in Kentucky and fifty people are dead... "

And that was just Fox.

It's hard to believe that the media could perpetrate anything more tasteless than Katy Couric shoving a camera up her south forty and giving America more information about her than we cared to know. But I think that this cotton-candy feeding frenzy over Karr tops it.

So here's to the mainstream media. May it feed many ravens in the ash heap of history.

[SamAdams76]

Well, he did get a pretty fancy meal for his trouble as well as a free one-way trip back to America.

[noblejones]

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. . . more tasteless than Katy Couric shoving a camera up her south forty . . .
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Uh, do you, uh . . . have a, . . . uh link for the Katie Couric south 40 cam? Not that *I* would want to see that, but, uh . . . do you think they take credit cards?

[cripplecreek]

Karr was hardcore media porn.

[The Iceman Cometh]

OMG, was that a joke...They even had to show the guy's friggin' plane land...

[ClearCase_guy]

In Tailand?

[60Gunner]

Whoops! I missed the "h". Good catch, Clearcase. I stand corrected.

[RS]

Mainstream Media Found guilty of same Knee-Jerk disease that infects many on FR

[60Gunner]

Oh, come on now. We aren't allowed to poke fun at the foolishness of the press? You missed my point, RS. I don't give damn number one about Karr. To be blunt, I don't even give damn number one about the Ramsey case. It's sad, but it's one murder out of hundreds of thousands. The media turned it into a circus. The Ramseys were a couple of whack-jobs who turned their 4-year-old little girl into a beauty pageant whore. Now that's sick and unjust. But there is no indictment of such beauty pageants anywhere in sight, is there? The gist of my post was that the whole story was indicative of the shallowness of the media- and perhaps also of our culture, since Americans have been so damned obsessed with the "whodunit" side of this case while completely ignoring the root of the problem. Go ahead and call me a victim of the knee-jerk disease. You're wrong, and you missed my point.

[RS]

Sorry if I missed it - but the whole Karr thing smelled bad from the get-go and I suppose I expected more from the FReeper family in sniffing it out. Too many seem to be willing to just jump on bandwagons these days if they happen to like the way they are heading.

Defective disgronificators in their truth-detectors I suppose.

[Wolfstar]

Mainstream Media Found guilty of same Knee-Jerk disease that infects many on FR

Way too many people -- yes, including conservatives who like to believe themseves to be independent thinkers -- blindly follow where the media leads.

The media focuses its white-hot heat over here, and most people predictably flock over here. Then the media turns and focuses it's heat over there, and the flock dutifully turns and looks over there. Millions of people are little more than lemmings who walk on two feet.

[Palladin]

Ya think that maybe now Rita Cosby will just SHUT UP???

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

I avoided the JonBenet threads like the plague.

[RS]

Ping to my #10

[60Gunner]

RS, you do bring up an important point. The only way to get to the truth on any matter is to investigate for ourselves. God knows the media won't help us, although they would simply love to do all of our thinking for us. The problems we see in our society are the result of too many people allowing the media to do just that. If it was not so, we would not see the attacks against independent thinkers and bloggers that we do.

[Wolfstar]

I avoided the JonBenet threads like the plague.

That was the smart thing to do. I mostly stayed off them, but did make a small number of posts here or there.

[Wolfstar]

Defective disgronificators in their truth-detectors I suppose.

LOL! I love your turn of phrase here. :)

[Sloth]

Uh, do you, uh . . . have a, . . . uh link for the Katie Couric south 40 cam? Not that *I* would want to see that, but, uh . . . do you think they take credit cards?

You, sir, are in luck.

[WasDougsLamb]

"free one-way trip back to America"


------- I agree. Just what the pervert wanted , along with the notoriety, that is.

[hunter112]

Somebody who authorized taxpayer funds for this needs to lose a job.