What you gleam from the media

Upon the front page of the Daily Express, to which i read (not as avidly as before) was the story of Debra Lafave, the teacher in America who's charged with all sorts of funny terms for hanky panky with a minor (FULL STORY HERE). I mean, yeah she's got issues but wouldn't you slam that hottie? Well, thats for y'all to decide, but the whole case has thrown into the spotlight (yet again) the whole "Should the legal age of sex be brought down?", to 14 or something. As immoral as that sounds, you gotta ask is it? It does seem that nowadays not just in the U.K but in most countries, or those that show sybdicated programs like Friends and Big Brother that kids these days are more sexually active than those at 30-40 years of age. It certainly would reduce red tape and a lot of bureaucracy but still, all the do-gooders with their morals saying "You can't do that" and all that. Something to think about.

This does seem to be a more media-related post, so to compliment this, then I must digress about the Fox News Channel (Sky 531). I know how much some people like it, and would swear by it, but if you actually sat and watched more than 10 minutes of it, you'd get to realise sometimes what a heap o' crap it really is. For example David Asman continued his campaign to offend every other country on the planet. This time, he managed to insult Europe, an entire continent, & his excuse was "the environment". I mean, given that somewhere along the line all of FNC's guests are related to News Corp, or linked to the US Govt in some skewed way, it doesn't do much to support its motto of being "fair and unbiased". I think for the next few weeks i'll study CNN with the same cynicism as FNC and post about them, although they were a lifesaver a few years ago for me, which hardly can be said about FNC and Cavuto in particular, pfffffffff, don't even get me started on that.

So as for myself, with the apparant lack of notable work except screaming every time FNC shows the weather in every conceivable place on the planet, there hasn't been much to do. As this year's Big Brother does nothing for me except using the "power" button to turn it off more predominately than before, it's time to get out the classics, Big Brother 1 and 2, only on VHS of course! Although shit i gotta blow the dust from my VCR player but i tells yer, when i see Darren and Craig again, oh the joy and the unrepugnation.....?

If you want something to mull over in the conclusion of this post, word is News Corp, the company Murdoch owns recently took over Myspace ("MySpace is an online community that lets you meet your friends' friends"), the 6th most popular domain/site on the whole Interweb. If you lived in New York, and bought the New York Post, subscribed to DirecTV and had a Myspace account, your whole media and news coverage would be own by Fox. Scary shit innit!


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