RIP Castro (and Journalism)

So help me if PerezHilton.com is right, and Castro is, in fact, DEAD...journalism in this country is officially dead as well.

Unless the Commie died while getting blown by Britney or something, every news director in this country should be slitting their collective wrists.

We're beyond "new era of media" here. Horray for community sites that take citizen tips, but SWEET BABY JESUS if this is true there is NO HOPE for traditional news.

None.

ZERO.

I'm disgusted, can you tell?

But here is where it gets fun-if there is no announcement, will those main stream media morons actually report on the FALSE report out of a celebrity gossip site? I say they do. I say they do just like two of my three local newscasts the other night lead with Lindsay Lohan's plea deal.

I'm weeping. I am. I may go watch The Paper with Michael Keaton just to make myself feel better.

Send me your local/national news links citing Perez. I'm anxious to see how this plays out.

Comments

[jackejett]

Honey

Journalism died when they were to chicken shit to ask the right questions in the lead up to war.

A mistake that has cost the lives of hundreds of thousands.

I hardly think the rumor of the death of a very sick man is going to do it.

jack jett

[selrahc]

You got it, baby.

[larry278]

This is just an incident of something falling off the long dead, rotten corpse of what the MSM calls journalism as decay advances.

[MelFamy]

Castro's death, as little brother says, is coming, but it will be a victory for nobody. The Miami Cubans will flood the island, seeking to regain their houses from people who have lived there for three generations. In other words, there will be a bloodbath. All that is predicated on the theory that Fidel's cult of personality is the only glue holding the government together. Raul may be stronger than is believed.

[steamboat]

Raul has a lot of power. Hey, he had General Ochoa executed. The hero of the Ethiopia campaign. So he has power.

[Sumocat]

There are two paths a species in a changing world can follow: extinction or evolution. Take your pick.

[Quaoar]

In other news, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.

[steamboat]

I doubt he's dead. What would be the advantage to not admit it if he was?

[hilow64]

However this plays out,it will just be one more nail in the coffin of the MSM.The Corporate Media don't even try (well,not very hard)to pretend to have any kind of journalistic ability or ethos.

Long gone are the heydays of Smith,Jennings and the last generation of real journalists.

[LittleBrother]

Please allow me to repeat myself:
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Castro's an old man with health problems, and will surely expire sooner than later.

In the meantime, this kind of cheap rumormongering is used to goose the target demographic of Castro-haters-- for whom the very thought of Castro's death is orgasm-inducing.

Enthusiastically reporting Castro's death has the same effect on ill-will-wishers as the headline "WWE Divas to Embark on Nationwide Public Fellatio Tour" would have on male WWE fans. (I started to write "adolescent male WWE fans", but the qualifier is unnecessary.)

Irresponsible and reckless reporting? Hey, lighten up! Even if it's dead wrong, it still felt SO good there for a minute!

[steamboat]

There is nasty enthusiasm on all sides. Leftwingers and rightwingers. You got Ted Nugent wanting Hillary and Obama extinct. You had Bill Maher making cracks about somebody needing to kill Cheney. Talkshow hosts make fun of Cheney's bad heart. So those salivating over a ruthless dictator like Castro shouldn't be surprising.

[Rand]

Maher made NO SUCH COMMENT. He merely posited a "what if" Cheney wasn't alive