Comparing headlines on news websites.

[knockabout]

Headlines on The NY Times:

Wall Street Still Unnerved Despite Rescue of Big Insurer
Candidates Express Concern
Supreme Court's Global Influence is Waning
16 Are Killed in Attack on U.S. Embassy in Yemen
India Grapples With How to Convert Its Farmland Into Factories
Pakistanis Tell of New U.S. Missile Strike
Would-be Chinese Protesters Still Detained
Crews

Comments

[hangingfire]

This is akin to a thought exercise I ran one morning while watching the news on BBC America. The BBC morning news show had an in-depth piece on the incipient food crisis in China (this months before the rest of the world realised the shit was hitting the fan). CNN had a bunch of talking heads nattering about Mitt Romney's Mormonism and how it was playing in the primaries. And Fox ... was talking about something, but hell if I know what; I was too distracted by the Ally McBeal-length skirt on the leggy blonde "anchorwoman" to catch what she was talking about.

[knockabout]

Funny how the Beeb seems to be more interested in what's actually happening to the US than the US is.

[immlass]

So what you're saying is: BBC and NYT full of serious shit, CNN half full of serious shit, Fox just full of shit.

[knockabout]

Well, I'm sure millions of nickels spilled on a highway is serious shit to someone.

[immlass]

Trust me, so are the lion and the tiger.

But nothing at all about the economy? That's service to the master bizarre.

[jleavitt]

We have avoided the problem by not having any investments! Nothing to loose, bitches.

I have a cartoon idea of a house-flipper-internet-investor-master of the universe yard sale. What do they have? Pottery barn candles and a huge TV?