Time Team’s Subject of Choice? Mindless Crap

February 28th, 2009 Artus Register

In an apparently attempt to publish important news, the brilliant, thumb-on-the-nation’s-pulse minds at Time have not only constructed an article informing us that some “senior officials” in the new administration drink Coca-Cola products, ut managed to have this dedunged excrement published by allegedly professional news outlets.

Important stuff, that.

This might be forgivable were we in a slow news year with readers tire of hearing about the social and economic utopia, lack of dead Americans, jobs apleanty fed by diminutive taxations, etc.  But with a plan at the cliff’s edge that will finish off the dollar, a fresh new “surge” in the works for the abysmal failure that is the Afghan war, and statist policies offering endless kicks to the ribs of Liberty, Time is seriously reporting on governmental soft drink preferences. And it isn’t a two-sentence blurb, either.

Michael Scherer cranked out a detailed nine-paragrapher–The Obama Team’s Drink of Choice? Coke, Not Pepsi–that chronicled his investigative journalistic skills, telling of his exploits in the White House recycle bins, revealing the product of crunched numbers, and gifting faithful readers with in-depth analysis of carbonated beverage choices among those currently sporting the jackboots of power.

It is good to know that is such perilous times, the watch dogs at the world’s last (fairly) free press are doing their jobs.  Riveting stuff.

But lest Time be alone relegated to the ninth circle of journalistic hell, this writer would be blissfully ignorant that this steaming pile of irrelevance existed were it not for comanies like Yahoo, whose “news” division thought this tripe to be not only newsworthy, but the sixth most important thing happening in the world as of 2:13 am, February 28th.

Entry Filed under: Afghanistan, Economics, MSM, News, The Presidency, Uncategorized