Comments on: The Unbearable Nothingness of News https://barelyablog.com/the-unbearable-nothingness-of-news/ by ilana mercer Wed, 02 Apr 2025 19:29:09 +0000 hourly 1 By: Richard Allen https://barelyablog.com/the-unbearable-nothingness-of-news/comment-page-1/#comment-61 Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:54:23 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=236#comment-61 I think the news media thinks like PT Barnum, “There’s a sucker born every minute.” It’s the old give’em what they want routine.
Terrorist? What terrorist? We got JonBenet.
Like the old joke about General Custer’s famous last words. “Indians? What Indians?”

]]> By: james huggins https://barelyablog.com/the-unbearable-nothingness-of-news/comment-page-1/#comment-53 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 22:55:01 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=236#comment-53 I hope Karr is the guilty one so we can close this whole sordid mess, but I’m not so sure he is. And yes, tricking out children to look like Las Vegas show girls is revolting. And yes again, the MSM is going to play this for all they can because they have a hungry audience. As I’ve said many times, nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

Just sign me;

Disgusted Dad..

]]> By: sshaun2 https://barelyablog.com/the-unbearable-nothingness-of-news/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Mon, 21 Aug 2006 21:00:00 +0000 http://blog.ilanamercer.com/?p=236#comment-52 That’s true, but news is big business and the bottom line is what’s at stake. News has to entertaining to keep the ratings up. Accuracy is a secondary concern. It reminds me of a Mark Twain quote:
“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed..
If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.”

I agree that having JonBenet prance around like a scantily clad adult was not just in bad taste but obscene.

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