News of Focus on the Family layoffs made the Daily Beast Cheat Sheet. For the uninitiated, the Cheat Sheet is the daily top ten "must reads from all over." It's amazing that anyone other than the 202 people (and their families) losing their jobs would care. What's the agenda here? What's the real news? We're all for taking shots at James Dobson when it's deserved - as it so often is - but let's make them fair, put them in context. A quick story meant to juxtapose staff layoffs with a pro Prop 8 donation isn't worthy of this attention. We love the Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, let's hope it doesn't become the Cheap Sheet.
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Focus on the Fair
News of Focus on the Family layoffs made the Daily Beast Cheat Sheet. For the uninitiated, the Cheat Sheet is the daily top ten "must reads from all over." It's amazing that anyone other than the 202 people (and their families) losing their jobs would care. What's the agenda here? What's the real news? We're all for taking shots at James Dobson when it's deserved - as it so often is - but let's make them fair, put them in context. A quick story meant to juxtapose staff layoffs with a pro Prop 8 donation isn't worthy of this attention. We love the Daily Beast Cheat Sheet, let's hope it doesn't become the Cheap Sheet.
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but the five-year old Nancy Grace-inspired story that should have died back then of Natalie Halloway has Dobson beat. Oh.. and Tom Cruise's loser movie is on the list.
I just find the entire 'must read' pathetic. With the exception of the Bagdad Subway, there's not a single story on international news. Nevermind Bush calling Qaddafi.. that's still USA-centric news. Where's the news on a bunch of kids from Somalia single-handedly hijacking a mind-boggling 16-story armed tanker? Or the slaughtering of kids in the Congo. Or.. the science breaking news that the kangaroo's DNA is awfully similar to little Joey's (the human).
Not to go off-topic from the theme of BC (but I'm going to anyway), it's no wonder Palin didn't know Africa was a continent. News today is more like Perezhilton.com than the informative pieces of yesteryears.
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