I'm in the Blogosphere Now

Well, here I am... starting a blog. I never thought I would start a blog but with prodding by my wife and brother I decided to give it a go. I would like to use my blog to bring out my opinion on what is going wrong with America. Not just on the national level but on every level right down to my neighborhood. I'll also talk about some of my interests in life. These may include my interest in computing and some of my views about the computing world... the fact that I am involved in starting a church... or some of my observations in the sporting world as well as some of my comments about Lame Stream News.




The reason I decided to start this blog is that I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take the crap that is coming out of the lame stream media. For instance, the final straw that broke the non bogging Joe's back was an article on Yahoo News from the Associated Press. In this article they went after Fox News Channel for showing video that was not associated with the story they were broadcasting. In this instance the Fox News Channel showed a video of Sarah Palin that was from the presidential campaign. they meant to show the crowds at the mall for Sara Palins book signing of Going Rogue, An American Life.



In the article there were no facts about the book signing. or the thousands of people that wanted to get their books signed by Sarah, but had to be turned away because they limited the function to 1000 people. Fox News Channel did post an apology for the production mistake. I really wish The AP would have at least mentioned the throngs of excited people vying for a book signature.



I saw the original piece that Fox News Channel aired and I also saw the video they intended to show. The video of the animated Sarah Palin lovers in Grand Rapids, Michigan would have been much more favorable towards Sarah Palin than the campaign video. AP also lambasted Fox News Channel for this being the second time a wrong video was displayed.



They also brought up the mistaken video that FNC showed of a Glenn Beck rally a couple of months ago instead of the video of the anti Socialist Medical Plan demonstrators at the capital. Actually it was brought to the attention of Jon Stewart and on his show. AP couldn't come up with this on their own, they have to depend on a hack comedian for material. I was going to post a link to this but I'm not going to promote the daily show. And here again, the material they intended to show was more telling and more favorable towards the demonstrators than the video shown.



My poor wife and children have had to put up with my rants and raves over the past few years of AP's poor grammar and misspellings and Yahoo News ability to post headlines with a link to a completely different story. So the gloves are off. I will post these screw ups right here in my little ol' blog. Now I'm no wizz at pros, not by a long shot, I've only taken one college level English course and I am by no means a writer or journalist. I’m just a common Joe who is fed up.