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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:19 PM
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Okay now I'm cracking up
This Rita *needs a cough drop* Cosby coverage of the TENNESSEE FUGITIVE ARMED ALERT TERROR ESCAPE NEWSFLASH!!! report is just frigging out of this world. Now she's talking to the suspect's brother, or is it second cousin once removed? Hey kids now they're showing video of the scuzzy motel room -- kewl!

Now I understand that feeling I had 15 years ago, when I decided NOT to follow my dream of becoming the next Linda Ellerbee. Was that my intuition telling me that in the next century, journalism as I knew it, would be deader than a door nail? I cannot for the life of me understand how people in this industry sleep at night.

Well, hells bells I guess I can -- Ambien and Jim Beam.

MSM = un-fucking-believable :banghead:
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:21 PM
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1. We need some Linda Ellerbees, Walter Cronkites, Bill Moyers, and
Edited on Wed Aug-10-05 11:21 PM by GreenPartyVoter
Edward R. Murrows.. dontcha think?
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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:22 PM
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2. It's. So. Obvious. What. They're. Doing.
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, er, I mean, the woman outside the ranch.
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lildreamer316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:23 PM
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4. Bingo.
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libnnc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:24 PM
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7. yeppers
Hey, Linda! Drop the stuff at Nickelodeon for a sec and come on home to Texas for a week or two. Can ya huh? Pretty please?
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rfkrfk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:51 PM
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12. there are lots of that kind of people
Edited on Thu Aug-11-05 12:01 AM by rfkrfk
they are just, not in journalism type jobs.

edit, add...
Why pay Walter Cronkite,
when most people would think that
Triumph the insult comic dog,
is just as good.
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Carolab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:22 PM
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3. Wasted my degree in Journalism in the corporate world.
There's plenty of whitewash there too, believe me.

Gave it up back in '87. Couldn't take the duplicity any longer.
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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:32 PM
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10. Are you interested in coming back as a freelancer?
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Carolab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:38 PM
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11. I've done some freelance since then.
Set up an S corporation.

What do you have in mind? PM me.
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lvx35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:23 PM
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5. Its seriously like one of those distopian sci-fi movies.
Like "The Running Man". People getting mowed down and the role of the TV is to provide a stinking distraction...:(
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Fridays Child Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:24 PM
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6. Kahlua and Elavil doesn't do it for me.
I'll have to try your formula. ;)
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ngGale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:27 PM
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8. Can't stand Rita or to watch MSNBC anymore ...
tabloid bunch of bullcrap.:spray:
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jasmeel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-10-05 11:29 PM
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9. I saw that too! I've been out of the MSM so long I just laughed.
Another piece of crap "news" show
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