If you need any further evidence that the MSM is not thinking about events in the Middle East, you need go no further then a little NPR news squiblet I heard this morning which, in less than 30 seconds, had 4 shopworn, thoughtless cliches. I can’t find the transcript (it was one of the “top of the hour,” 30 second updates), but I can tell you that I learned that Israeli bombs “pounded” a “Hezbollah stronghold,” “flattening buildings,” and creating a “pall of smoke.” With this many cliches, this is practically computer generated writing. Anybody who spews this type of mindless garbage cannot be thinking about the story behind the automatically generated words.
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Pretty soon there will be an array of cliches that will mix and match themselves and intone themselves at appropriate news breaks. Look ma, no hands… or brain. How can you listen to NPR?
And this is surprising because….?
Cutting and pasting is not just a blogger tool, it’s a media too as well. Albeit up until now, an exclusive one.