Think I'm going to stop reading cnn...
at Feb 18, 2007 11:43:49 by
Jon
Maybe it's just me but cnn has crossed the line in terms of what a news site should be. I used to have it as my homepage after 9/11...but recently it's become a sad state of affairs at the site. It seems like they have almost becoming a tabloid.
This is what graces the frontpage. Well hey, Iraq isn't going to well...but Britney cutting her hair off is a natural disaster(which I would bet was intended to show how ridiculous the media is).
And for anyone that plans on beating their wife this weekend, there is some nascar news at the bottom.
In other news...
Is that a threat?
Cnn - the new fox news
at Feb 8, 2007 08:00:27 by
Jon
Lately I've been noticing that cnn.com and cnn television has started to become very underhandedly biased toward the right-wing. I can imagine this is because of Fox being the ratings king and having a right-wing slant. It seems in the last few months that Fox has increasingly become a laughing stock in the industry. Just a few weeks ago Senator Barrack Obama had all fox news staff banned from his campaign bus. This was a big deal in the regular news channels and so CNN seems to be jumping at the chance to steal some of Fox's more conservative viewers.
This was a segment that cnn did a little over a week ago. The first half isn't that bad as it does have a somewhat balanced view towards athiests and their rights.
This is the second half of that piece and it's hard to watch without getting enraged:
Where is the Athiest on the panel? Who knows? It's so obvious none of these people know what they are talking about. They keep saying "well atheists don't believe in anything"...what does that mean? Why do I have to believe in something? I believe in people and pretty much treat others as they should be treated. I just don't have anyone to pray to at night. I have religious friends and I'm fine with them because that's their choice(or their parents :P).
That whole cnn segment looked even worse than a fox news segment! Our times are very scary, cnn used to be thought as left-slanted...it seems like all anyone is interested in is money. Journalism is dead and it's being taken over by blogging on the internet.
I don't understand why god has to take a central role in this story. What about the hardworking regular people that are surviving? The ones that don't have the church to fall back on? I don't know, maybe this is boring.
However, notice the headline? If you compare it to the story, there is only about a paragraph of stuff about religion, the rest is all about the democratic reponse to FEMA's work. IS THE RELIGIOUS STUFF MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE RESPONSE?! I don't know, it seems stupid but they gave the religious stuff precendence over actual information in the article.
"Sysadmin of the Year" Winners Announced
at Dec 4, 2006 08:12:17 by
Jon
"Ten winners of this year's 'Sysadmin of the Year' contest have been announced and, while Robin 'Roblimo' Miller says it's not quite like winning the Miss America contest, being selected from approximately 2,500 entrants is nothing to sneeze at. This year's first place winner battled an office fire to save a RAID backup server, while another IT manager won an honorable mention for his dedicated work at a yarn store. From the article, '[The nominating entry said:] Any man who would take on a position at a yarn store, much less a technological position while surrounded by a dozen women, ages 55+ deserves some kind of reward...'"
What do I do? Do I stay at Purchase where I've made a ton of great new friends or do I head back into the city? That's what I keep asking myself and I still have no clue. If I go back I'll end up being lonely again because I didn't have that many friends in the city to begin with. The good part about that though, is that I'll get tons of time to work on editing and animation and stuff like that.
If I stay at Purchase my career takes a backseat to social interaction. I was drunk for five nights in a row the other week... I've never been like that before. I also have a hard time caring about the classes because they have nothing to do with my career goals.
Blah. Lately though, my friends at Purchase have been kind of drifting away. Nobody specific, just a few different people. It makes me feel like this will happen wherever I go. I'll make friends with someone, it'll be great for a few months, then things'll begin to sour.
That's why it's a hard choice. I also can't tell if I'm just young and naive either... I feel like I'm a pretty good friend to people when it matters, sure I don't want to go out to every party...but if someone really needs my help, there's never a doubt that I'll help.
Being single is also getting pretty lame. What is this a year now? Watch out for me in the hallway if you see me going to class. I just might jump you
I'm not dead. I'm just working on my animations a lot these days. I'm going to start updating this more when more I have more to write. This next episode of Reboot I'm working on is a big deal. It's going to be over ten minutes long...and I'm actually animating on it. I think it actually has a chance of being number one on newgrouds....
