The Geeky Brit

Ooop, Steve ain’t dead yet, but Bloomberg published his obit. It seems in pursuit of the scoop, journalism stoops to new lows… Or it was a mistake.

Now, I know the US does not offer an impartial news channel. CNN leans left, Fox leans right – tho both deny it adamantly. Because of this I find myself reading and listening to a wide variety of sources for my news intake. However, I laughed today when I went to the CNN website to check the latest poll of polls that they do (Obama leads by 4 btw).

So on the main politics page, I find a nice large ad for Obama’s campaign. Now, I know that this is more to do with CNN’s advertising business unit than the political news desk, but I did think it rather broke any hint of impartiality the website is attempting to show.

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Oooh I can’t wait… Thanks to Nick for this one.

A reader of my local paper sent a reply to my letter to the editor. Kind a nice to have some vindication of my thoughts that Merced City Council (generally) is full of morons, who are just looking after their own and don’t give a rats ass about anybody else.