Stupid News Is Stupid
Mar. 30th, 2011 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
filkertomI'm not even gonna bother with the links on this one -- it's just an eye-roller, and it shows the need for our alleged news media to create tension where there is none, even in situations that do not warrant tension.
See, if you go to Yahoo's main page, #1 in "Trending" is Sara Ramirez, who is going to sing on this week's episode of Grey's Anatomy. For some reason I simply cannot fathom -- it isn't in the story or anything -- the lead-in blurb to KABC-TV story from the Trending page ends, "Can she pull it off?"
The story itself notes that she won the frickin' Tony in 2005 for Best Featured Actress in a Musical (as The Lady of the Lake in Spamalot!).
"Can she pull it off?" < /disgusted, insulted snark, exactly the same tone that Bugs Bunny used when he jerked his thumb at Elmer and said, "Magic helmet." >
Why do they do this? Why do they say this? If they need to gin it up, they can say, "Sara hasn't sung much since her Tony-winning turn in 2005...." What asshole copy editor thought it necessary to even contemplate making it a possibility that she wouldn't sound marvelous?
And, yes, I know it's the entertainment news, which is even more shallow in some ways than the political news. But jayzus. It's like with Dan Radcliffe. He's doing How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying on Broadway soon, and all we've got so far is pictures of Harry Potter Singing! Either he's a complete flop as a singer and dancer, or (more likely) they think the surprise that he isn't a complete flop will be I*N*C*R*E*D*I*B*L*E! No matter how good he is, all they're really doing is setting him up for a variation on, "It's not that the bear dances well, it's that it dances at all."
Anyway. Sorry. Just had to go off for a minute. Carry on. How's your day?
See, if you go to Yahoo's main page, #1 in "Trending" is Sara Ramirez, who is going to sing on this week's episode of Grey's Anatomy. For some reason I simply cannot fathom -- it isn't in the story or anything -- the lead-in blurb to KABC-TV story from the Trending page ends, "Can she pull it off?"
The story itself notes that she won the frickin' Tony in 2005 for Best Featured Actress in a Musical (as The Lady of the Lake in Spamalot!).
"Can she pull it off?" < /disgusted, insulted snark, exactly the same tone that Bugs Bunny used when he jerked his thumb at Elmer and said, "Magic helmet." >
Why do they do this? Why do they say this? If they need to gin it up, they can say, "Sara hasn't sung much since her Tony-winning turn in 2005...." What asshole copy editor thought it necessary to even contemplate making it a possibility that she wouldn't sound marvelous?
And, yes, I know it's the entertainment news, which is even more shallow in some ways than the political news. But jayzus. It's like with Dan Radcliffe. He's doing How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying on Broadway soon, and all we've got so far is pictures of Harry Potter Singing! Either he's a complete flop as a singer and dancer, or (more likely) they think the surprise that he isn't a complete flop will be I*N*C*R*E*D*I*B*L*E! No matter how good he is, all they're really doing is setting him up for a variation on, "It's not that the bear dances well, it's that it dances at all."
Anyway. Sorry. Just had to go off for a minute. Carry on. How's your day?
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Date: 2011-03-30 08:31 pm (UTC)Glad LJ is sorta back. DDOS attacks stink.
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Date: 2011-03-30 08:35 pm (UTC)