Senses Assaulted by Sketchy Media When Home Sick

I was home sick today and casually ping-ponged between Fox News and CNN, hoping to get up to date news. I don't know why I do this to myself. I was watching the story regarding the young woman who'd converted to Christianity and run away from home out of alleged fear that her parents would kill her, because they are devout Muslim. Fox News had it running most of the day. Almost nothing on CNN. The question at hand was if she was going to be returned immediately to her family in Ohio, or be allowed to remain in Florida. Yesterday, when I first heard of the case, I emailed the Governor of Florida, requesting that she be allowed to stay in Florida until the matter is fully investigated.

I should mention, it's not like I've got any personal connection to the Governor of Florida, I just found his email and wrote. This morning, I received an email back from his representatives stating that the matter had been brought to court, and that the ruling was in favor of allowing the girl to remain in Florida DCFS custody for awhile. I leave my home computer and that's when the surreal time warp occurs, between my computer and watching Fox News on TV. Apparently, they didn't get or ignored the email, so busy were they reporting that they were tracking it closely, hoping the girl would be allowed to remain in Florida, etc. They continued to report for four hours after the email that they were awaiting word from the trial.

They're certainly not alone in the time warp problem. CNN had a report today about an alligator found in the Chicago River. As I live in the area, it's always of interest to me what might be lurking in the river, even out of morbid curiosity. So I googled it and discovered it was yesterdays news.

So how did this Middle Eastern girl's story not rank sufficient airtime on CNN? I wondered about if they have some kind of quota or formula for percentage of stories in a period of time that focus on Muslims? I know they had the special on Generation Islam and another very recently related to Muslims. Naw, they probably were probably doing their civic duty, warning the unsuspecting public of the dangers of an alligator who was removed yesterday.

I should have gone to my doctor and gotten some meds, because the time warp converted to a fantastical color discrepancy on my very TV. Fox News then showed the protesters of the Bush era, to contrast it to the protesters of the Obama era, and in the images they selected, all of the protesters against Bush that they selected appeared to be black, and all of the protesters against Obama appeared to be white. Now, I could be wrong, but it seems to me that there are many different people in America to film protesting something one or the other did, so why select images from the archives that way? It's very misleading to the viewing public and likely to ignite some very strong feelings of racial division across political lines. Do they do this to try to incite the people?

I would have thought I was imagining things, until they were showing film from Obama's candidacy, speaking to all black audiences, as if the only people who supported him were black. That was ridiculous. I recall learning that to make some of his initial public speaking engagements seemingly more diverse for the cameras, his people set the front row people up at times in order to ensure that diversity was demonstrated in the supporters. So why is the media doing this, unless it's to create a division among people in order to generate news later? You know its bad when you walk away from the TV feeling sympathy for the presidents facing the media as it is today.