When News Moves Faster Than the Speed of Reality
We're not sure what's wrong with us today. Maybe it's the abrupt change in temperature, our exhaustion, or that old fried rice we just ate, but we're feeling...reflective. Thus it's time for some media-inspired self-flagellation:
OTHER SHIT WE'VE ALREADY FORGOTTEN ABOUT BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT IT WAS BEST TO MOVE ON IN THE CULTURE WARS, THE WAR ON TERRORISM, ETC.:
The initially-proposed $15 million in aid for tsunami relief efforts
Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame
16 words (including "Niger" and "uranium")
Richard Clarke and Condoleeza Rice's 9/11 memorandum
The proposed modification of the Constitution to placate the religious right ("Gay Marriage" edition)
The proposed modification of the Constitution to placate the religious right ("Activist Judges" edition)
Last month's Downing Street memo
Paul O'Neill's account that the Iraq invasion was planned prior to 9/11
L. Paul Bremer's warning that the U.S. had troop shortages in Iraq The war in Iraq
Such negativity — we must purge ourselves of it! And what of our media success stories? We haven't forgetten about Tom and Katie and Brad and Angelina and the West Side Stadium and booze and drugs and Kabbalah and absurd real estate and rich people and glossy magazines, now have we? Most certainly not, sir. So let's quit dwelling on the failures, then, and start a self-congratulatory victory dance on Edward Murrow's grave.
