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Bill O'Reilly

Need I say more?

The truth is rarely an issue for this dude. He just makes it up as he goes along and we simply have to believe what he says. Well, at least in his mind…

A friend recently suggested that I write a piece on the TV media and the lack of real truth that actually pops out at you.

Have the likes of Dan Rather, Peter Jennings and so on become more the show than the actual reporting of the news? I think so.

Aaron Brown, of CNN, is someone that strikes me as the one extreme. He rarely gets through a story without putting his personal spin on the whole thing.

“Skippy”, as some of us knew him in the early 70’s, came from a local talk radio show in Seattle…along with Sandy Hill, of the ABC Morning show fame, and Greg Palmer, of lesser fame, an entertainment cynic of the local King broadcasting show. All came from this station. It was pretty cool to listen to them; they had an edge.

Aaron went on to ABC and then, finally CNN. He has an opinion by golly and you are going to hear it, in spite of what the story may be. He has a job to do and clearly I have the option to change the channel, which I do.

Luckily, Animal Planet is running “Animal Precinct” at the same time, so it isn’t a tough choice.

On the other end of the spectrum, we have Bill O “talk dirty to me on the phone” Reilly. If this guy were anymore “Right”, he would be wearing full-blown storm trooper clothes. The beauty of him is that he is so loose with his facts that he is laughable. Sadly, there are people who believe his hate filled ranting.

Give me Jeff Gannon.
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Now, there is a first class softball pitcher, if there ever was one…The Talon News Agency… there is a gem.

The guy runs gay dating services on the internet; gets a fake name; and is still somehow able to get a Press Pass from the Whitehouse? He gets info that other news agencies can’t get. Well, the easy course of action here is too easy, so we won’t beat that lame horse.

So I read the news or watch the coverage on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, for you Americans.) It isn’t as entertaining, but I guess I never thought news was meant to entertain.