Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Enough with the Miners!!!!!

Last night at the Kings game the PA announcer made an announcement and they showed live footage on CNN of the miner rescue in Chile. The last time I was at a sporting event and a news announcement was made was in 1990 at the LA Colisseusm during a Raider Game (Operation Desert Storm)

I understand that this is a sort of uplifting story. What I do not understand is the crazy coverage of it..especially on my twitter feeds @breakingnews and @cnnbrk Why do they have to make an announcement about every single specific miner???? And why did they interrupt the Delware Senate debate on CNN for BREAKING NEWS another miner is out?

####Breaking news###as I write this blog..miner number 17 is out..his favorite color is blue, he likes long walks in the rain, and he is now happily reunited with his wife...please stay tuned as we break in to another of your programs to bring you ####Miner 18! And it looks like they have lowered a monkey down carrying a cheese sandwich to the rest of them. Or maybe 12 monkeys!!!

5 comments:

Brett said...

hahaha. Something eating you Gar?

BTW - love the Twelve Monkeys reference. One of the all-time classics.

Brett said...

Uh oh... this ought to bring the two Inner Gars to fist-to-cufs... http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com/news/article.aspx?feed=AP&date=20101013&id=12174271

See the last paragraph. What happens when Gar's beloved Apple jumps on the bandwagon of Gar's bemoaned news story?

Garrett said...

How funny is it that Zune is so laughable that on an msn.com site it states that they were given Ipods....can you imagine if the article said, the miners were given "Zunes" most people would go, what the turkey is a Zune!! (:

MISS WTH??? said...

hahahahaahahahaha the coverage was crazy!!!! I know what you mean!!! i got all excited & thought "AAHHHH yes im going to watch all the miners come out 1 by 1 from the 1st miner to the last" ......................................................I only lasted watching the 1st miner come out the rest just bored me out of my ass hahahahaha

Hayley said...

The most entertaining part for me was that they had a count down clock on CNN yet it showed days. Why it is crucial for the world to know the exact amount of seconds it is taking to save the miners that have been trapped for months!