The Furious Spinner

I've always been uncomfortable with embedded reporters. (Duh, eh?) As a journalist you are supposed to try and remain as neutral as possible. How can you be neutral when you're eating, sleeping, and getting shot at with the same group of people? Naturally you're going to want to report stories which make them feel good, which means you might not be reporting the truth. Plus, you're reporting on people who are protecting you from being killed. Come on. The job of a journalist is to get the truth of the story as best she can. We know we aren't getting the full story about what’s happening in Iraq.

A recent study found that 100,000 Iraqis have died because of this war. 100,000. Can you imagine how pissed off we would be if another country sent their troops in and they caused the deaths of 100,000 of our civilians? The United States is creating baby terrorists every single day we're over there fighting. I don't think reporters should be embedded—or at the very least, there should be as many NOT in bed with the military as there are in bed with them. This interview on Alternet with an unembedded reporter is very interesting. He ain't seeing the same things we're being told every day in our mainstream media, that's for sure. Quelle surprise.

And apropos of nothing except continuing the discussion of folly: you've probably heard that they've discovered rocket fuel in lettuce, organic milk, and bottled water. Yes, rocket fuel. The FDA says there is no cause for alarm because they're not sure it's bad for us to be consuming rocket fuel. OK, I'll say right here and now, ladies and gents, that I ain't no scientist or one of them smart fellers running the FDA, but I suspect what my grammy used to say would apply here: "Don't be an asshole, kid; don't drink that rocket fuel. It's fer punching holes in the ozone layer."

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