From my own personal experience, all major news outlets love when the bombs start dropping. It’s their favorite thing. That’s how you get on TV standing in front of a burning skyline and they give you cool nickname like ‘scud stud’. Anyway they have no reason to want it to stop. - ThreadSky

phineas.bsky.social • 3 days ago

From my own personal experience, all major news outlets love when the bombs start dropping. It’s their favorite thing. That’s how you get on TV standing in front of a burning skyline and they give you cool nickname like ‘scud stud’. Anyway they have no reason to want it to stop.

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jack3loped.bsky.social•2 days ago

Don’t knock the MSM. Everyone wants to see the end of the world as we know it. (Que Michael Stipe)

tj-tarheel.bsky.social•2 days ago

I remember the bombing at the beginning of Desert Storm when only the young and new CNN with Ted Turner stayed in Baghdad. I also remember the invasion in 2003 and the days of heavy bombing before the unnecessary invasion-never found any WMD’s but helped form countless terrorist killing Americans.

stillconcerned.bsky.social•2 days ago

The Gulf War saved CNN from the ash heap. The OJ trial created legal celebrities. The idea of reality TV gave us a con man president. The thread that connects it all...$$$$$$$$$.

tossedferatu113.bsky.social•2 days ago

Exactly!!!

poptrash1966.bsky.social•2 days ago

sorrisa7.bsky.social•2 days ago

This trend seemed to kick into high gear with the Gulf War.
We used to watch some evening news but had to stop b/c we had a 3 yr old and a newborn and refused to subject anti the incessant violence “they” seemed so excited to talk about.

tedm211.bsky.social•2 days ago

Trump instead of the admiration and envy he craved is going to get a lynch mob instead.

crinoidsoup.bsky.social•2 days ago

You can lynch anybody with a "strongly worded letter" and I'm afraid that's all the fight our "leaders" have in 'em.

tedm211.bsky.social•2 days ago

It was a horrible sight as his rats turned on him and devoured him alive.

crinoidsoup.bsky.social•2 days ago

Ooh! I like that proposed storyline. I don't think he hired any smart rats, but there's hope...self preservation is quite a motivator.

coastal-nutmeg.bsky.social•2 days ago

Think of all the Emmys, too for news coverage in a combat zone.

papablue49.bsky.social•2 days ago

remember Arwa Damon
I watched as she went into shock, witness to the slaughter of women and children 💣

dangurden.bsky.social•2 days ago

Indeed. Once predicted by the satirical comedy show 'The Day Today', which accidentally set the format for modern current affairs TV; https://youtu.be/r3BO6GP9NMY?si=IzF0q0eKGTW7khZ4

gtjr.bsky.social•2 days ago

Unless we all stop watching them. Seriously. I haven’t watched tv news in several decades. I’m not less informed. As a matter of fact I think I am better informed than most about the things that really matter.

breadrollcat.bsky.social•2 days ago

Even if they hated bombs dropping, the media and the "studs" have no power to end it.
🤷‍♂️

kaysgramma.bsky.social•2 days ago

Maybe if everyone who says they no longer watch CNN and/or MSNBC actually meant it, news outlets wouldn’t be so anxious to put their pundits in harm’s way. Judging by how many people reported that Rachel rushed to air w/no makeup, they just can’t help themselves

phineas.bsky.social•3 days ago

This short thread demonstrates why I am going to be pre-deleting hopefully all news-based posting. Just note that I feel very bad about everything too.

phineas.bsky.social•3 days ago

And just one point of clarification… I don’t think every or even most journalists think like this. But I do think every journalist’s boss’ boss does.

crinoidsoup.bsky.social•2 days ago

I've completely checked out of mainstream media and it's unfortunate because that is exactly what Trump and the magats wanted us to do.

phineas.bsky.social•3 days ago

All just to say any information you’re getting about Iran and what’s happening there from an American source is going to be some amount of fake. They are all in the tank because they all want to be cool war reporters which you don’t get to be if the administration doesn’t let you.

forensicgarlic.bsky.social•3 days ago

I was reading about the US first war in the "middle east" and wondering about Algiers side of the story

dingledooiss.bsky.social•3 days ago

I mean thank fuck no one watches broadcast television anymore

phineas.bsky.social•3 days ago

Anyway I didn’t make up the nickname thing, kids.

tj-tarheel.bsky.social•2 days ago

Fitting name I must say

russdibello.bsky.social•2 days ago

I've never wondered for a moment why Arthur Kent chose to leave the Peacock and move back to work in Canada. For a real journalist to have to put up with being defined by American junk food culture as "the SCUD stud" must have been humiliating as hell.

littleangus.bsky.social•2 days ago

And aside from the emotional wins,

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