Nightly News Watch
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I’m officially renaming NBC Nightly News to NBC Nightly News For Dummies. Last night, I saw one of the most asinine news reports ever. (Yes, even more asinine than the unending “Long Road Back” series.) Here it is: Road trip reveals impact of gas prices.
An NBC “reporter*” and his “producer*” rented a candy apple red sports car — a convertible — and drove from North Carolina to Orlando, Florida. During the trip, they bought gas. That was the story. I swear, I’m not making this up — that was literally the entire story. This brilliant bit of journalism was intended to prove that we, the American people, are indeed experiencing the Pain At The Pump(TM) that they are harping about so much these days. Because, you know, we may not have noticed. Or we might think they were prattling on about nothing.
The story went on for like 3 minutes, with jaw-dropping inanity after inanity. Each time the “reporter” filled up, he told us how much he spent. “I just filled up the tank with 8 gallons of gas and it cost $24!” Later, we see a shot of a gas pump indicating some $40+ dollars worth of gas inserted into the convertible’s tank, while the “reporter” dutifully exclaims, “ouch!”
Of course, during the trip, the “reporter” “interviewed” other regular people to get independent confirmation of Pain At The Pump(TM). (Seriously, isn’t there any other word in the English language they can put with “pump” besides “pain?”) “Golly, these gas prices sure are high!” one regular person exclaimed. “This is ridiculous!” another regular person exclaimed. “I’m fed up with it!” a third regular person exclaimed, sitting in her car before driving away.
Hey, I have an idea. How about a story on how much oil stock the NBC News executives own and how much money they stand to gain from causing mass hysteria about gas prices? Or maybe a story about how much crack an NBC News executive has to smoke in order to approve a story about absolutely nothing? Just a thought.
* Is there anything more insidiously sarcastic than quotation marks?
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