i've got sorta a rant diary going on my computer, here's SOME of my entry from tonight after i was disgusted by what i saw on what they call the ''news'':
dinner was late, and as such, we were all seated on the sofas when the late edition of national nine news comes on.
okay, something important, but im tired and not listening. something else that sounds sorta important, still not really paying attention. some cricket player and some bingle split up, who cares blah, water restrictions for victorians to change okay, fiji in despair with cyclone, right, diggers' bodies from 1916 identified, cool....... hold on....... WHAT THE !@#$?!?!?!?!?!?!
enter the double take, the funds in my bank account rapidly transferring to the household swear jar, and all the fireworks factories of the world simultaneously inexplicably exploding.
let me get this straight, and i will get it straight in order of stories reported AFTER the bingle cricket thing.
okay. the north-south pipeline has been opened. it has cost $750 million to complete. it will feed desperate, thirst-ridden melbourne up to 75 BILLION litres of water per year, and it has been opened. as a result, water restrictions have been eased, and gardens are now able to be watered every second day. this is big fuggin news for the ''garden state''.
next story. the fijian government has declared a state of emergency, as a devastating, category FOUR cyclone annihilates their nation. a massive SEVENTEEN THOUSAND people have been displaced
next story. the remains of an aussie digger who fell in fromelles, france, in 1916, were identified today, and his family in australia notified as a site containing the bodies of a whopping 75 out of 250 australian and british soldiers who fell in fromelles more than 90 years ago, was discovered. this is huge for australia. world war one diggers personified the gumption, determination, guts, and fighting spirit that australians identify with.
all three above stories seem pretty significant to varying degrees right? - one relating to the state we live in, one relating to the nation we live in, and one relating to the world we live in.
WRONG. apparently ALL of the above three are, in the context of pecking order, INFERIOR to the break up of some cricketer and some ugly girl who would be no-where if she wasnt blonde.
the story goes like this: they've broken up. he's back on the cricket pitch. she's spotted coming out of a gym in sydney, and i guess just because the kind of people who watch crap like this need it, the reporter adds "seen coming out of her bondi gym AFTER A WORKOUT". !@#$ me. the reporter then goes on to say "bingle is holding onto her tongue regarding the details of the break up ..........(at this point, a shot of lara dropping her phone beside her car is flashed up on the screen, as the reporter continues) ........however, the same cant be said for her phone. im someone expendable, national nine news".
the alien in charge of watching australia's news reports as part of an anthropological study that the aliens are conducting before they come over to kick our asses, would be laughing gleefully at just how much of a pushover our country, at least, is going to be, when they come to fry us all.
alien employee: sir! come here and look at this!
supervisor (after having watched our news): hold on, did i just see them report about some almost-kid C list celebs breaking up, THEN some really important news that pertains to the water struggles that they've been enduring for years, THEN the plight of a small island neighbour as nature demolishes their land AND their people, THEN some really significant news which refers to an event in this nations past from which this nation draws much of its nationalistic sentiment? did i just see them subordinate all of those important stories to a news report about two effing nobodys who are having some relationship issues?!? you have got to be kidding!
unfortunately, mr alien anthropology survey team supervisor, it's true. as far as you're concerned, we're probably already bent RIIIIIIIIGHT over.
/endrant.
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