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The media today is overkill. With millions of blogs on top of thousands of local news stations as well as their corporate nation-wide sponsors, there is just too much crap circulating around. There are many things in this world that are just so stupid that I don’t want to hear about it (nor does anybody else), but some bigshot wannabe decides that it should be headline news. For example, see all celebrity news. Especially those concerning Michael “Jacko” Jackson (Fox News coined that phrase, see?). Here are a few things that I am absolutely sick of hearing about.

Media Reporting on SoCal Fires

Some media guy being overheard: “Its 9-11 all over again! We need around the clock coverage! We need to send our best cameramen in! We need to go to the fire department and talk to a firefighter to find out exactly how the wind makes the smoke curl through the abnormally warm air! We need to send our best investigators to figure out exactly why the air is so warm (because it obviously couldn’t it be caused by the nearby gigantic fire). This is all al-Qaeda’s fault!”

That last part is also courtesy of our friends at Fox News who actually believe that the wildfires were started by al-Qaeda operatives. This makes me wonder how Fox could still be in business if they are reporting stuff like this. It was a suggestion from an anonomous person and all of a sudden it is authoritative? Right-o.

Why with all the resources that Fox has, why don’t they contribute to the cause and help fight the fire? That would be something news worthy. “Fox Reporter Dies While Heroically Fighting Fire” (read as: “Dumbass Reporter Attempts to Fight Fire, Doesn’t Understand Hose”) would be the headline in the next morning’s paper. In fact, they should throw the Fox executives in there too. I’m simply sick of my news feeds being clogged up with reports of the California fires. There is no doubt, its a tradgedy, so stop talking about it and actually do something!

Blackwater / Iraq War

Another day, another story about Blackwater. Blackwater is a guns-fore-hire company. If you need your own private Secret Service or general bodyguard team, Blackwater is the way to go. Well apparently Blackwater has their people running amok in Iraq. Which is another thing I am sick of hearing about. Every single day the media hypes up an attack on American soldiers. A bomb blew up and killed 2 American soldiers! Insurgents attack the green zone! A staff sergeant had his boots stolen by his own squad!

Soldiers don’t lose wars, politics and the media do. Look at WWI and WWII. It was quick and clean, the U.S. went in there, raped the German army (as well as scored with some French girls), seiged Berlin, and in general kicked ass. No politics, no nosy reporters sticking their face into the gruesomeness that is war, no rules against carpet bombing entire countries to hell. War isn’t supposed to be fun, pretty and filled with ponies or rainbows. Of course, the media seems to think different. “Look at this disgusting picture of a guy with his legs blown off.” Oh really? Perhaps the enemies are supposed to just lay down their arms and start hugging everybody? It isn’t the UN over there.

So I say stop showing everything to those that are weak stomached, especially during the evening news when the wives are cooking or eating dinner. You think that is going to end the war? No, its just going to put a bunch of aging ball-less housewives out on the street protesting instead of cooking my food and paying their taxes. I’m tired of the media sticking its hand into something it doesn’t understand a damn thing about. General Patton was almost stopped due to public outcry during WWII over some of his actions, including abusing a soldier. You know what he did? He beat the kid again for making a fuss and told the news companies to screw themeselves. General Patton is a true hero.

OiNK / File Sharing

Once again, the media makes a fool of itself. It flies of the hook throwing random charges at OiNK after its recent takedown, such as “OiNK was downloading music to its website.” Of course, this isn’t the part that bothers me the most. The news stations are filled with old men and haven’t ever been, nor will never be, tech savvy. Its the community that is annoying.

It seems that you can write about anything that has to do with OiNK and it will front page on Digg. OiNK users world wide are crapping their pants in fear that they are going to get busted by the label industry. Quick! Write a thousand articles on how your data is safe, and another thousand on why it isn’t! All the meanwhile provide enough evidence for the label industry to sue the hell out of Mr. OiNK himself. There are some things people should learn to shout their mouths on, and this is one of them.

Of course, the media isn’t completely blameless here too. I am sick of them portraying filesharing all wrong. Because of the news companies such as Fox, my internet’s bittorrent is throttled. What does this mean? I can’t download Ubuntu updates in a reasonable time, nor can I get America’s Army, F.E.A.R., Enemy Territory, or podcast updates quickly. Back to the same-old HTTP protocol. Yeehah. Thankfully I do have access to a DC++ network too!

Lucky Halo 3 (or other FPS) Kills

Hey, you killed somebody with a lucky grenade throw, or that barrel that you pushed just happened to fall on your enemy. Great job! Except that everybody and their little poodle makes a lucky kill like that if they play long enough. Why do they merit a front page on digg? That spot could have been filled with something much more amazing, like the school gym that was flooded with pudding (actually, that is something I have yet to pull off, it is quite difficult to get a hold of 40 million gallons of tapioca).

Take for example in Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory when I shot a tank with a Panzerfaust, and a guy standing on top of it flys off, while holding an unpinned grenade, and lands in the spawn area and kills the 6 people that just spawned? That was an amazingly lucky shot on my part, but whatever. Move on in life! You play enough and you will make many more amazingly lucky shots. I don’t need to hear about every single one!

Having people saying “Take a look at this kill!!1!” everytime they make a good one is like when your six year-old neighbor comes over to show you all her new dolls. Thats nice little girls, I don’t care to see your dolls and I don’t care to see your kills. One or two, yes, they are cool. Ten or 20, that is annoying. Thank you for playing.

Global Warming / Environment / Al Gore

As everybody knows, the world is coming to an end. Robots are being sentient, there are holes in the ozone, nuclear war with Iran is coming, and global warming is going to bake us all (and then drown us in melting ice caps). Yes, we all know it is going to happen, and that there isn’t much that we can do. You can shut up about it now.

According to Wikipedia, the average global temperature has risen by .74ºC in the last century. Oh no! Not an entire .74ºC! That is almost a whole degree! In the coming century, the average temperature is expected to rise another 1ºC to 6ºC. Everybody keep the freezer doors open in your house, your air conditioning alone won’t be able to handle it! Er… wait, I don’t even have air conditioning and I am just fine. I live in the deserts of Arizona. I’m sure the animals feel the same way as I do… another 6º will do nothing more than keep the water in my pool a little warmer a little longer into the winter. I may even be able to ditch the sweater.

So stop whining about it! Yes, I am talking to you too, Al Gore. We are are not all going to die. Some species of animals might, like dinosaurs did millions of years ago, but thats just life. Speaking of Al Gore though, he recently one the Nobel Peace Prize. The Peace Prize? I could see the Loud Mouth Prize, or the “I Got My Head Stuck Up My Own Ass” Prize, but the Peace Prize? What conflict has he resolved? According to Wikipedia, it is “for [his] efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change.” The Nobel Prizes given out are in physics, chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, and peace. Climatology does not fall into any of those categories, so why does this douche bag get one? Perhaps just to shut him up, unfortunately it didn’t work.