Someone please explain this to me.

[The Castellan]

I was at a friend's place, he was watching FOX news (Luckily he switched channels shortly), and the humanoinds there were ripping on Mr. Obama for the bow he gave the Japanese Emperor.

WHY?!

If I were a politician or just over in Japan on vaction and I should, for some reason, bump into the Emeperor....I'd bow as well, just being courtious and respectful.

I don't understand what the big deal is here. I mean...correct me if I'm wrong...but was not Dubya, when he was in Saudi Arabia, holding hands with the Shiek....like a pair of school girls, and kissing his rings and nearly lip locking? And I don't recall any of the news medias ripping on Dubya for that?
Are these news medias really got nothing importent to talk about, or am I missing something here?

"Fox News." They don't care about reporting the news so much as advancing the agenda of their owner and the Republican Party. Other cable media outlets can be biased as well, certainly (though to a lesser degree than Fox), but usually that's because the political leanings of the production staff and reporters seep in to the opinion portions of the broadcast rather than because the network itself literally serves as the propaganda arm of their chosen political party.

As opposed to say, NBC News?

luckily, I don't get my news from TV.

 

[John Picard]

Unforunately, things of this nature frequently happen in Africa. As unfortunately, no country in the world is currently capable of doing something about this without bringing about a drastic change in its own society. Thus, while tragic, it's of very little use as news.

I don't think the bowing story has much use.

As for Guinea - it's just an illustration of what I perceive to be a recent story due more prominence. I'm not saying the news should list all world events in order of body count while displacing domestic affairs, I would simply prefer greater a awareness of significant events in Africa or Asia or Europe than more pointless fluff.

People like you take the fun out of Infotainment and Gossip. Real *news* reporting died around the middle-1980's.

 

[StolenThunder]

People like you take the fun out of Infotainment and Gossip. Real *news* reporting died around the middle-1980's.

Hey, I read The Superficial every day too.

 

[Roger Wilco]

You could've learned how to spell your president's name by now.

The spelling is a tribute to NBC's journalistic accuracy.

Sure...