憤 - Fen4 - Anger, Resentment
憤怒 - Fen4 Nu4 - Anger, Rage
Today I came home from work and Jenny had the TV turned on to the network evening news, but to a different network than the one we usually watch. She said it was because our normal one had this stupid story about a tiger that had escaped from some star’s home in Florida and she thought it didn’t deserve to be on the news, and got mad and switched. I guess the local news had been talking about the stupid star and his stupid tiger all day and she had had enough, so when the national news started with it too, she snapped.
So right as she was telling me this, the channel she had switched to finished up all their important news and went to, obviously, the tiger story! Her eyes flashed as the grabbed the remote and switched quickly to the one remaining network, which was showing some commercials. She spent the whole commercial break raving: “aren’t there actual important things going on?” “why does anybody care about this?” “they only let the national news have a half hour and they waste it on this, the local news already spent 5 hours today talking about this stupid story!!!”
The third network finished up with their commercials, and came back to close up the news: “finally tonight, the story of an unusual animal hunt going on in Florida today…”
me
… if one must have some TV news, switch to C-SPAN…they never even mentioned the tiger. But the right answer is to never watch local, network, or cable newsertainment shows. Period end of story.
steve
Later we switched to the News Hour on PBS. They didn’t mention the tiger, thankfully.
me
…that’s good and PBS along with NPR are both OK for real news.But just in case you miss the end of the tiger story, here it is:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/07/13/escaped.tiger/index.html
steve
PBS and NPR are OK, but I get my real news from the Daily Show.
walde
yah, news is horrible. If they can’t report it without pre-packaged news bytes or quotes, then they don’t report it at all. That’s why they love stupid meaningless stories. You’d figure there are enough important things going on that they’d use the 24hours of nonstop cable news to go into details and facts, but it’s always just “xxxx said this about his new proposed tax cuts” without discussing the actual proposal, or “a new poll shows xxxx with a 10% lead over yyyy” without discussing the details of the poll like demographics and questioning the reliability of the source of the poll etc, or “a new study finds a relationship between xxxx and cancer” without details on the study or disclaimers about how you can basically show anything by using sketchy analysis. Basically robbing you of the ability to make decisions on your own. Attempting to force you into turning on the news every night so they can tell you what your new opinion is “Tonight you now think the war in Iraq was a good idea”. Can’t stand news.
Wow… I think I turned that into a full fledged rant. Kudos to me!
walde
Oh yeah, the best source for news is the Free Speech Radio/Fox news power combo. Get yer super liberal/uber conservative mind blowing lie attack. Neither one of them tells you the entire story, or the truth, but if you merge them together and elimination the 70% of stuff that they clearly just make up, then you get a decent view of remaining 30% of stuff that’s probably only exaggerated. Then you can say with 100% confidence that you’ve listened to both sides of the story and determined that you can’t possibly know enough to have an opinion on it. Then it’s nap time.
steve
Ah yes, the time honored “average of two lies” method.
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