To: jstolzen
Anyone else have a handy, dandy "breaking news" service that delivers text messages to your cell phone/pager?
I almost NEVER get a "breaking news alert" - not even when something REALLY bad happens.
Tonight - and I kid you not - I've gotten at least a dozen "breaking news" updates on Kerry/Edwards/Lieberman/etc. Who won what where. Like I give a yip.
On the other hand..ZERO "breaking news alerts" about ricin since yesterday.
What in the heck does this say about our priorities as a country, and the control the media has over what we are spoonfed?
Given the fact we're not "totally" out of the Eid/countdown clock woods yet, I was going to leave my phone on all night on my nightstand..if there was "breaking news", it'd beep and wake me up..however, I'll be darned if I'm gonna be woken up many times tonight to hear who won XYZ state among the 7 Dwarves (or, "breaking news" on how the Hildebeast is gonna enter the race now that good Joe is out).
5,968 posted on
02/03/2004 8:30:53 PM PST by
jstolzen
(All it takes for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke)
To: jstolzen
".however, I'll be darned if I'm gonna be woken up many times tonight to hear who won XYZ state among the 7 Dwarves (or, "breaking news" on how the Hildebeast is gonna enter the race now that good Joe is out)."
ROTFLOL
5,970 posted on
02/03/2004 8:33:05 PM PST by
Revel
To: jstolzen
I get news alerts on my two way pager. Live. Even Homelandsecurityus.com offers this service. Follow up with me if you don't get an answer.
5,975 posted on
02/03/2004 8:44:34 PM PST by
Calpernia
(http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm)
To: jstolzen
"On the other hand..ZERO "breaking news alerts" about ricin since yesterday." I wonder if this isn't a product of the steven brill-hosted media and Tom Ridge meeting... Perhaps?
To: jstolzen
It does say alot about communism in this country!
6,112 posted on
02/04/2004 7:52:00 AM PST by
JustPiper
(D A M N I T O L Take 2 and the rest of the world can go to hell for up to 8 full hours)
To: jstolzen
J: You are so right! I signed up a few weeks ago for FoxNews alerts to my cell phone. A few days later, I got one about a Black Hawk that crashed in Iraq (fairly newsworthy, I thought). The only other one I've gotten was this past Sunday night informing me that the Patriots had won the Super Bowl - LOL! I thought, good grief, if you wanted to know that, you already knew that - otherwise, you couldn't care less!
6,161 posted on
02/04/2004 9:39:32 AM PST by
Hegemony Cricket
(Dodging the Slings and Arrows of Outrageous Fortune)
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