Does anyone else find this annoying and unbelievable?

[StellaBlue]

I am half-watching CNN while looking at the web. The usual suspects are on Lou Dobbs, and the bottom of the screen features, in huge letters:

WHITE HOUSE MESS

Is it just me, or does this sound very casual, colloquial, informal, and silly... for 'journalists'? Mess? Have I been living in Europe too long? It strikes me that the Beverly Hillbillies are doing the graphics tonight... ???

I am also tired of news anchors saying things like, 'There's six of them' and 'it's a miracle'. Among other things.

WWWCD? What Would Walter Cronkite Do?

[tularetom]

1. Annoying, yes. Unbelievable...

well nothing that they showed on CNN on any other crappy cable outlet would not surprise me.

[LaurenG]

2. Times have changed

It is a mess and it just gets messier. Kerry referred to the war in Iraq as a mess as well.

[JuniperLea]

3. I'm with you, StellaBlue

They are getting so lazy with grammar and word choices. And they should be setting an example, imho. It's all part of the dumbing down of America. Pathetic, isn't it?

[StellaBlue]

4. The BBC would never do that.

hahaha (but, really, they wouldn't)

[Career Prole]

5. If it was a "White House Mess" Barney would have to testify, no?

Come to think of it, I'll bet chimpy would druther KKKarl had just shat on the Oval Office rug.

[Lancer]

6. Sometimes it seems they run out of slang. I've seen

"INSERT BANNER HERE," on CNN twice since Katrina.

[chalky]

7. When I see "White House Mess" I think of that book by Buckley's spawn:

White House Mess: "A brilliant satire . . . A witty, very funny, intricate spoof".--Bob Woodward.

(I think Bob was exaggerating just a smidge there.)

[mestup]

8. Annoying! Sounds like someone left socks and candy wrappers

on the Oval office carpet.

[renate]

9. I don't know whether it trivializes what's going on

or whether it makes the White House sound, well, messy. For five years they've presented this image of themselves as being total control over every situation. The grown-ups are in charge, etc, etc.

"White House Mess" is maybe not as strong as the more accurate description "White House Going Down in Flames," but if I were an average viewer I'd at least think "mess" sounds chaotic, yucky, and out of control.

[karlrschneider]

10. There probably wasn't enough space to write

clusterfuck...

;-)