jesus, coverage of the war is now pretty minimal, from my point of view. i guess the advertisers wanted something more PEPPY to sell tubes of toothpaste to.
and i’m dismayed, though certainly not shocked, that MTV and other such channels catering to young, hip urbanites isn’t bothering to give it much coverage. christ! MTV, believe it or not, used to be the voice of my generation… now it’s nothing but one huge 24 hour ad campaign, designed to make the bling-bling set even more bling-bling. whateva, playa. step up or step off, but get outta my muthafuckin’ face with that bullshit, biatch.
as far as i’m concerned, when there’s a war going on, you cover the motherfucker. you cover the hell out of it. it’s bad enough that the major American news organisations have completely disavowed all knowledge of the price of war – i haven’t seen one mangled, partial corpse on the television YET. it’s not like i have a sick fascination with death or anything… ok, i DO, but i really seriously HATE gore… it’s just that people need to SEE this stuff. people need to KNOW that the only REAL outcome of any war is death. massive, horrifying death. the one in-your-face picture i’ve seen in the American media has been in the latest ish of USNews & World Report: a picture of a headless Iraqi soldier in a trench, next to a merely PARTIALLY headless Iraqi soldier. it’s really enough to make you want to vomit – and demand a quicker end to this whole stupid, terrible tragedy.
i am getting sick of the American public and their pathetic short attention-span and rampant apathy.
