If you want to know whats wrong with MSM news listen to this

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Harry Shearer is blogging at talkingpointsmemo this week and he has a post with some great sound clips of Dan Rather off camera.

If you ever had any doubts that MSM news is vacuous pap, this will convince you. Go to the link and click on the 'here''s.

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_03_13.php#005169

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1. This is going to sound positively stoneage

but I dont have a sound card. What does he say?

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2. Its one of those things you just have to hear

The whole prep that goes into the 45 seconds he is on the air. In one he's in Africa covering the release of Nelson Mandela and Rather mentions to a staffer he didn't wash his hair that day to hold it down, and the decision to wash it tomorrow would be made at a later time. Worrying about the "karma" of saying "Good night Connie". Reporting in front of the bombed out federal building in Oklahoma City, that one is really weird.

The whole fake reporters voice memorizing a few short sentences by repeating them over and over.

Really, it's no surprise people have no clue what's going on. The people reporting the news don't either.