After weeks of the tossing of human waste referred to as the "local TV news," it is easy to become desensitized to the kind of low-budget, Hollywood, action-movie nonsense that they have been irresponsibly pushing onto an impressionable audience that these self-described "news outlets" have been known to convince several times a year that snow flurries will result in the total collapse of civilization. Following "liberal" media outlets WTAE's straight-faced blaming the City's neglect of their properties and KDKA's reliance on anonymous sources, delivered by a failing radio pundit who gets a chance to play at reporter because he is married to a news anchor, would seem to be a tough act, but local extreme-right, shock jocks have accepted the challenge.
If you got the day off, due to a rumor being spread this morning that "'G-20 protesters' intend to drive into the region's tunnels, stop a car, slash the tires, and burn it," then you were the victim of an irresponsible, dangerous hoax perpetrated by Ouinn, one half of local wing-nut radio comedians, Quinn and Rose (but enjoy your day off). This right-wing kook also maintains that "'G-20 protesters' will be throwing tear gas cannisters into retail stores," overlooking who actually possesses stockpiles of these kinds of chemical weapons and it is not the people operating community farms, mobile kitchens or writer's centers.
While these private-plane populists have both made the admirable decision to refrain from serving in the US military, the "war room" does seem like a strange name for the website of a couple of show-business types. Why so many entertainers are concerned that Barack Obama and the global elite have a good time, remains a mystery?
There is probably not anything that can be done about him, being a Clear Channel employee, but these kinds of dangerous rumors can get people hurt, especially given the local fear of tunnels.
Email the station manager to see if he feels that yelling "fire" in a crowded rush-hour tunnel is the kind of infotainment he wants to be associated with.
Comments
Mooooooooo...Sounds like Quin and Rose set off their own "bull-ship detector."
Nice article about the fear mongering. Honestly the g20 and their finance ministers perpetrate economic, psychological and physical violence on much of world population 24 hours a day seven days a week this passes as "the status quo" while anarchist come occasionally make a mess once in while and the media craps it's pants.
Thanks for reading and taking the time to comment. Quinn and Rose seem untouchable.
Pittsburgh is no stranger to broken windows or traffic jams.
C-mon, Quinn did nothing wrong, but I will give you credit about Griffin, he is a moron and a product of Sorenson.
Tim, nobody is planning on doing that kind of thing and not only does it endanger the health and safety of commuters who aren't very good at the driving thing to start with, but it creates a justification for violence against some decent, well-intentioned people, who are as real as you and me.
No matter what a person believes, the destructive capabilities of contemporary anarchists are greatly exaggerated, and that goes double for the US
Tim,
I guess they know it, since his radio show goes head to head with Limbaugh. I'd feel real expendable
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