Wings Over the Pyre

01:50 am - The Spicy Region

I have a membership to a new service that lets me clip bits of reporting from various news outlets. As an experiment, I went looking for bits on the recent Chinese earthquake in Sichuan.

And then I found … this:

I’ve seen some crappy journalism in my day, but really? Szechuan Chicken as the emotional linking device to a 7.9 magnitude earthquake? CNN, do you really have such contempt for your audience that you think they need that to help them care?

The more I follow the journalism, the more I’m repulsed by journalists. It doesn’t help that, technically, now I am one.

Current Mood: aggravated