OMG! Have you heard? The president of AMERICA has an opinion…. ZOMG!!!!!!111
Seriously. It must be the slowest news day ever. Obviously the media has hit saturation point with war, famine, plague and pestilence so now we have a headline news bulletin which revolves around the President of the USA expressing an opinion about someone.
What the fuck has the world come to for this to be news? Even the BBC has shamed itself by covering it. To death.
In a nutshell, Kanye West was a jack ass and interrupted an award winners speech. Yeah, big deal. I could just about see that being the news item but the reality is people act like self-centred idiots day in, day out. The fact that some one famous is self-centred is hardly news. Following this frankly uninteresting incident, President Obabma was holding a conversation about it off air, but some ABC staff recorded it and felt the need to post twitter messages about it. Following it becoming “news” ABC have apologised to CNBC and the POTUS and have removed the twitter posts. Obviously this has done nothing to reduce the global spread and the wonders of the interweb mean we can all listen to the President of the USA calling Kanye West a “jack ass.”
Is this really how low our society has sunk? Is the President’s personal opinion about someone’s behaviour genuinely newsworthy? What impact does this have on anyone’s life?
If pushed, I am sure you could easily find in excess of 50% of the worlds population who would call Kanye West a “jack ass” even prior to his MTV awards behaviour. Is that news worthy? If not, why not?
The only thing I can think of is that the worlds news agencies are so overwhelmed by the onslaught from Web 2.0 crap applications that anything which has even a passing reference to them becomes news based solely on its perceived ability to appeal to the yoof market. It is shameful, and certainly goes a long way to explaining why “old media” feels it is under threat from the new media…
Shame on every news outlet that carried this story. Even a cat up the tree would have been more newsworthy.
Obama’s MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America) rating: PG
He used, at worst, a mild expletive.
George W. Bush’s MPAA rating: R
He used a scatological term.
Dick Cheney’s MPAA rating: X
He used a sexual term and suggested the performance of an explicit (albeit difficult) sexual act.
So far, it looks like the Democratic President’s language is more family-friendly than the language of his Republican predecessor and his predecessor’s sidekick. So much for those Republican family values. 8)