Posted on 04/20/2009 11:17:41 AM PDT by Scanian
Sure, there were more clever signs at Tax Day tea parties around the country. Some were clutched by indebted children. Others made "pox on both (political party) houses" statements. And there were the required bailout bashes.
But no sign I spotted at any Lipton-lobbing rant fest summed up the nationwide sentiment like the one I saw on Fox News' "Hannity" program Wednesday night from Atlanta.
The poster scribe could have condemned any other media formerly known as mainstream. He (or a brash she) could have written "MSNBC Sucks," but what's so bold about stating the obvious? He could have scratched out "USA Today Sucks," for promoting their love for big government, but the McPaper's crosswords are pretty good. He could have stated "the Journal-Constitution Sucks," but why disrespect the dead?
Or he could have raised awareness about crappy individual reporters like the Denver Post's Mark Jaffe, or the Washington Post's Kari Lydersen, or any New York Times journaleftist, for they all inhale deeply. But they are too obscure.
Instead mallet mashed spike precisely in the Peach State capital, where CNN Sucks resides. That the bold pronouncement was held aloft where an aerial Fox camera could capture the sentiment was perfect. Recent days have confirmed it:
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
“CNN really does suck lemons.”
They really do suck but I don’t think I’ll specify just what.
Frankly, I find the article very badly written. The author says the poster scribe could have made fun of MSNBC, or USA Today, or the AJC. But didn’t. Then he says something about a “mallet mashed spike precisely in the Peach State capital, where CNN Sucks resides.”
Why put that gobbly-gook? Just say “Instead, CNN (sucks) which resides in the Peach State capital was put squarely in the spotlight”. Or something to that affect - I had to re-read the stupid article 3-4 times to figure out the person put “CNN Sucks”.
Did you leave a comment after the article? Thanks for telling me that you didin’t care for it but the person who can actually do something about the writing style is the author, not the FR poster (me).
I realize you were not the author, and didn’t mean to offend you. I just felt the article was extremely poorly written, do you not agree?
There is no doubt that I’ve posted more readable articles.
The thing is, if you post articles very often you find out that people who don’t like one sometimes “shoot the messenger.” I think more FReepers would post things if readers would take it easy on the posters. Not everyone is interested in the same things, nor do they have the same point of view, obviously.
Understood - I wasn’t ‘shooting the messenger’, so much as trying to solicit opinion.
I’ll work on the delivery.
No problem.
Agreed, it is pathetic writing but pathetic seems to be the standard for which our current crop of “journalists” strive.
Any fifth grader in a public school in South Carolina fifty years ago could have done a far better job of writing.
I told someone recently that I used to wonder if news reports were accurate, now I just wonder if the so-called reporter even has any idea what he is TRYING to say.
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