The United States Also Has Plans to Invade Finland, Malta and Jersey City, New Jersey

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I can't figure out why the New York Times felt it had to report that we have plans to invade Iraq. (Who doesn't?) Slow news day?

From Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke: "It is the responsibility of the Department of Defense to develop contingency plans..."

In other words, the DOD creates thousands of plans for all sorts of contingenices. I knew this. You knew this. Why does the Times suddenly think this is news?

Maybe it's not the Times. Maybe it's how other media are reporting the article, as if they all suddenly got a peek up the White House's skirts (and saw Bush?). This whole practice of the media now using each other as source material is starting to bug me.

 

[Guest]

 

[sufisaint]

Let's not invade Jersey City...Lets just bomb it...maybe all the toxinswill burn as well....and we can start over....

 

[sunstruck]

They ran out of gossip and someone important wasn't killed so they brought up something old and tried to clean it up to look new.

That's basically it. There's nothing new going on right now, but most Americans are still perched in front of the news, starting their day at the news stand. The media is afraid that if they don't keep words like "Invasion" and "Iraq" and "Attacks" in the papers and on the air people will go back to porn and repeats of "Friends".

 

[Wizard]

I don't think Jersey could get much worse............Best part about Jersy is leaving.................


Sorry folks fromn Jersey.............

 

[Guru]

 

[Pixie]

Finland? Okay...whatever.

 

[Guest]

Re: The United States Also Has Plans to Invade Finland, Malta and Jersey City, New Jersey

I can't figure out why the New York Times felt it had to report that we have plans to invade Iraq. (Who doesn't?) Slow news day?

From Pentagon spokeswoman Victoria Clarke: "It is the responsibility of the Department of Defense to develop contingency plans..."

In other words, the DOD creates thousands of plans for all sorts of contingenices. I knew this. You knew this. Why does the Times suddenly think this is news?

Maybe it's not the Times. Maybe it's how other media are reporting the article, as if they all suddenly got a peek up the White House's skirts (and saw Bush?). This whole practice of the media now using each other as source material is starting to bug me.

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Those bastards!

 

[April]

There's a whole world of news out there. The newspaper reporters are just too lazy to look for good stories.