WTF who cares, it's a slow news day.....
Honestly..... ...... ..... ....


(comment aimed at the media)

slow news day?

HAHAHAHAHA!! Slow news day?

Slow news day.

Great solace descended on China that one day they had a slow news day. Or a media blackout about something big. One of those two.

Roommate? BEDroommate seems more likely! Musta been a slow news day [and I'll have some of what that segment reporter was indulging in, please sir]

At first I thought Chronicle was the name of NY news rag that might have an internal slogan of "on a slow news day, make your own news". Then I realized it's a movie about flying high school kids. Lame. Neat videography in this viral advert, however.

Seriously slow news day. Was Kim Jong still alive at that point?

it's amazing how 24-hour news networks don't seem to have enough time in the day to deal with all the news, and have to go use crap-"news" like charlie sheen or some other non-important non-issue.

Shit... if I had a 24 hour news network, and in my country that particular day was a slow news day, I would go looking for more important news somewhere else in the world. There's almost 7 billion of us. There is ALWAYS something actually relevant and actually important going on.

Wow. Slow "news" day...

Fucking moronic.

Reminds me of a bit about Lyndon Johnson in Hunter Thompson's 'Better than Sex'

'Lyndon was running about 10 points behind, with only nine days to go... He was sunk in despair. He was desperate... he called his equally depressed campaign manager and instructed him to call a press conference at two or two-thirty ( just after lunch on a slow news day) and accuse his high-riding opponent (the pig farmer) of having routine carnal knowledge of his barnyard sows, despite the pleas of his wife and children... His campaign manager was shocked. 'We can't say that, Lyndon,' he said. 'It's not true.' 'Of course it's not,' Johnson barked at him, 'but let's make the bastard deny it.'

>> ^lucky760:

Undoubtedly, the right wing cogs will regard this as a glowing success: Trump pushed the president into submission. Trump > Obama! Yay!

Although this story may be a filler on a slow news day it doesn't take away from what the boy did. $2.85 is a lot of money to a child so from his point of view he sacrificed a lot. He even gave up his toys to make the donation! He genuinely felt compassion for her and acted on it. I think it's pretty amazing! So if you forget that it's a news story maybe it will tug at your heart strings too. >> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^dystopianfuturetoday:
Giving this awesome little kid his money back takes away some of the meaning of this thoughtful act. That money should be used for medical bills as the kid intended. Send him a nice card if you like, but honor his sacrifice.

....Or get a cup of coffee and a donut. Look I get the intent but the entire "news worthyness" of this drek shit is so not there. Its simply a filler for the station. I cant get behind crud like this...
Lets see, Crud,drek,shit,filler. yup I covered my bases.

*nature
*terrible

And wow:

"top story"
"continue to follow this story throughout the day"

Slow news day eh?

I think you're taking it a lil' too far. Like I don't watch major networks and I didn't hear about this whole drawing muhammed thing like ever before. Bar the original BBC/CNN debacle a couple of years back which did happen during a slow news day. I think most of this is manufactured totally and gives some free publicity to some small sector of nutters.

Like this past year some group announced some plans to hold a rally carrying caskets of dead muslims around the city in the UK where almost all UK troops killed in Afghanistan are carried through.

What followed was NATIONWIDE coverage and outrage from all sectors of the public from MPs to the SUN to the fucking mail about how fucking horrible and insensitive it was and what not.

The rally never happened, it was just announced and PRed into the mainstream media and made the group who wanted to hold it national news they had the head guy up on telly chatting shit. Their representantive actually said that they did this for Pr and the media bought and spewed it back to the masses.

Its just like those pictures of muslims in the UK with signs that read SHARIA is GOOD for UK, all zoomed in with cops around made to look like there are hundreds of people pull back and theres like 12 of them...

Its just yellow journalism of another sort.

>> ^gwiz665:

I'd like to see that, god yes. Major networks want to spark the controversy even more, it's good news, gives good ratings. I'd like to see muslims unite against muslim hatred, on the inter-web for instance. There's not censorship here other than what we make ourselves (and china and so on), but there's far less censorship than on any network.
Every muslim who says "oh that's only the fundamentalists, most of us aren't like that, so I'm just going to stay muslim and mind my own business" is in essence undermining the effort to destroy the fundamentalists and their stupid beliefs. Why don't they make "neo-islam" a thing akin to protestants breaking off from the crazier outliers of their religion, so we know more clearly who to hat and who not to? That would be a good start.
I'm speaking out against islam, christianity, mormonism etc. because I cannot just stand by while we devolve into the dark ages again. Why can't more people just voice their disdain, dislike, disgust or whatever they have for the fundamentalists, who more than anything else sullies their religion, their persons, their families?? Why aren't they OUTRAGED!?>> ^Farhad2000:
Oh come on show me one major media network that has ever been willing to put on the air a moderate muslim voice like Hamza Yusuf.
>> ^gwiz665:
I blame them all. If they want to be a religion of peace, they have to speak out against the violence. As long as they just go along with it, they are not much better themselves. I spit in their direction.
>> ^MrFisk:
Freedom of speech is the primary thread that the Bill of Rights, and thus, the U.S. Constitution dangles from. However, it is not absolute - e.g., I cannot yell "fire" in a crowded theater.
Now, I hold free speech especially dear to my reasoning. I believe that John Milton's Areopagitica is essential - i.e., "Let [Truth] and Falsehood grapple." (That is the key to explain my Glenn Beck submissions.)
And don't get me wrong, I'm all for drawing Muhammad, but I downvote this because this guy is a moron and don't think that you should blame an entire religion for something a handful of douche bags espouse. The real shame is that these handful of douche bags has been given such a loud voice by the media it quivers others into submission.

>> ^StukaFox:
So I live on this really steep hill in Seattle. Last year, the hill became a sheet of ice after a week's worth of snow compacted. And I said this phrase easily a dozen times to people attempting to drive down the hill:
"Don't go down the hill, it's all ice."
And the various responses I got were:
"Fuck you!", "I got four wheel drive!", "Stop telling people what to do!", "I have a Subaru!", "Fuck you!"
All of which were usually followed by:
"... stupid asshole telling what to do I can drive on ice OHFUCK!" -- WHACK!
Moral: lulz, schadenfreude!


I told a guy (not you, not Seattle) "thanks, I'll be alright". Then I went over the crest, down the ice-covered street, past the dozen or so crashed cars, stopped at the bottom, signaled, made a left onto a busy street.

I had studded tires on my truck.