London, 1939. Edward R. Murrow reports live from the Blitz. New York, 2009. Rick Sanchez reads Twitter, Facebook and MySpace comments to me like a baby.

Oh how far journalism has come over the past 70 years!

Every Monday through Friday, CNN’s Rick Sanchez gets paid to report the news to America by reading people’s Tweets, facebook and MySpace opinions. All of which are websites for social networking – not news reporting. Throughout his broadcast Rick walks over to his ‘state of the art’ message board where he reads to America pure opinionated comments from anyone who chooses to ‘report’ on what they think is happening in the world. That anyone basically being those who aren’t at work and actually have time to watch and Tweet to Rick.

Sure, everyone is entitled to his or her free speech. Look, look, I’m doing it right now! But to have a ‘professional’ news anchor sit on his ass and read me Tweets, posts, statuses and away messages…fuck that’s a bigger waste of money than bailing out GM.

If I really wanted to get my news reported to me through people’s statuses and away messages, I’d just turn on my computer and open facebook myself. Come on Rick, you’re clearly not reporting unbiased fact like a professional journalist should be. Perhaps you should switch over to the “No Spin Zone” and report for FOX News instead.

But wait! This just in from the Associated Press. “Alaska’s incoming governor isn’t the tweeter that Sarah Palin is.”

No, please. Say it ain’t so!

“Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell says he ‘may or may not’ use a new Twitter account his staff established for him this week,” says the AP.

Damnit! It is true. What the fuck would we do without our politicians tweeting us about their day? I really hope that this Parnell guy keeps me posted somehow on when he will be riding his snow machines and taking family photos from his house with nothing but Russia in plain sight in the background.

It’s a wonder how the world ever survived without our politicians tweeting us all day. I mean, what would be more epic if John Kennedy had just tweeted, “Ich Bin Ein Berliner!” Oh I know. Perhaps if Reagan wrote on Gorbachev’s facebook wall, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” But only after giving him a friendly facebook poke!

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