:: American Mourning ::

Tuesday, November 02, 2004

I strayed from my common routine and turned on the television this morning while preparing for workplace travel to indulge in a little election coverage. CNN seemed to be the most focused, so I leant an eye in their direction while brushing my teeth and putting up power squats of over 40 stone.

Two thoughts:

1) Karl Rove not only uses a Motorola T730 but flaunts it by gabbing loudly to Ed Gillespie (ooh, the GOP chairman has a "BLOG") in front of the press corps. I've always considered the man miscreant, but this is the first time I've thought him clueless (did someone say "the Yugo of cell phones"?). Either that or he's more of a panderer than I heretofore conceived possible by buying American (nominally - the phone was designed and manufactured in China) even when it comes to his phone.

2) In the brief period of time in which I watched the Cable News Network they ran two self-congratulatory pieces, one regarding how they overhauled their prediction system as to not jump to any conclusions and call a state prematurely as in 2000, and another touting their use of the NASDAQ Market Site and its "96 television monitors" tonight. I know producers love to make movies about making movies and rappers love to pen lyrics about setting it off in this rap game, but something tells me that if my company released a mobile phone application letting the user simulate the mobile phone application development cycle it would tank. Maybe that's a specious analogy and I'm ignoring the quality of media in general to be singularly self-referencing and unabashedly self-promoting, but if I wanted a run-down of their awesome extravagance and impeccable trustworthiness I'd go visit the CNN center in Atlanta.

Posted by morland @ 11:48 AM

:: Comments ::

Bryan Yi used to live in Atlanta. He attened Emory undergraduate, and has massive thighs.

Posted by: aruss on November 2, 2004 01:48 PM

Yes I spelled "attended" wrong. Something Bryan Yi would never do, fyi (go Yi!).

In this sense I have failed my leige lord.

Posted by: aruss on November 2, 2004 01:50 PM

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