Losing One Of The Real News Guys

WHEN BAD THINGS ARE A SIGN OF IMPENDING GOOD

In the “End of days”, “Truth will fail. – Isaiah 59:15″

Actually, Brit Hume’s departure comes as no surprise, as common sense and intelligence are no longer generally viewed as desireable assets. In fact, I think that may well turn out to be the hallmark of the Obama years, if events proceed as they have already begun.

But the dark cloud has a silver lining in that we can be sure the real Messiah will soon be revealed.

“Good luck Brit. “

Ditto that!

He’s probably the last of the real journalists, at least the well known ones, anyway.

Regarding the others who collectively can’t fill even one of his shoes, I quote from a book entitled “The Wit and Wisdom of Spiro T Agnew” that I saw in a bookstore in Ft.Lauderdale some many years ago, “When small men cast long shadows, it’s a sure sign the sun is setting.” And the funniest part? It’s a book of blank pages.

@Mike’s America:

“…. the Special Report program he created is the best one hour of serious news on television.”

But, since they’ve discovered they have no more need for real news he’s alas as expendable to them now as air is to a corpse.

And those of us who will miss him aren’t a large enough base for them to worry about,

…and why does this stupid editing program keep scrolling down so I can’t read it, or go to a place I wan’t to edit? It’s a real pain.

@Mike’s America:

Yeah, and anyone who remembers what news USED to be like can’t stomac the tripe they call news now.

“news” at 11:00:

“Coming up tonight, stuff you’ve been hearing all day, and should you carry your umbrella tomorrow, or buy a boat?” … obligatory small cross-talk between news-readers … “More after these words …. interminable commercials …. “High school students go on field trip, … , mother gives birth, … , local Democrats accuse Republican of being Conservative, … , local weather forcaster has birthday, … , weather tomorrow after these words tonight…” etc., etc., nothing you haven’t heard all day, constant repetition puntuated by commercials, what they really want you to watch them for, to sell you stuff. And the terrorists who were arrested in New Jersey for being 24 hours away from blowing up Trenton? You have to get that on the internet, because it’s just not “newsworthy” – they only have so much time, and the fast breaking story of the opening of a new Starbucks is just so much more important.

I remember when the BBC used to be a real news outlet. There would be more actual news in 30 seconds than a whole program on any commercial station today. Whenever you have anyone discussing what happened, and telling you what it means, you have an editorial, not news. I don’t think anyone does that anymore, certainly not the Left, and not even the Right. It’s a pretty sad state of affairs.

And thanks for the tip. Next time it happens I’ll check which version I’m using, Mozilla, or Internet Exploder.