IF MEDIA COVERED AMERICA THE WAY WE COVER FOREIGN CULTURES

[AthenaAwakened]

IT HAS HAPPENED AGAIN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

Let us say that a guy got drunk at a bar outside of Mobile, Alabama, got in a fight with some dudes about University of Alabama versus Ole Miss college football, and ended up shooting them dead in the parking lot.

Terrible, right? Stupid, violent, too many damn guns, shame, right?

Now imagine that some foreigners slapped a crappy pseudo-anthropological analysis on top, full of weird historical references, non-sequitur references to the church, and misguided assumptions about ethnicity.

Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States – and so soon after the religious festival of Easter.

Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down three men from an opposing tribe in the village square near Montgomery, the capitol, over a discussion that may have involved the rituals of the local football cult. In this region full of heavily-armed local warlords and radical Christian clerics, gun violence is part of the life of many.

Many of the militiamen here are ethnic Scots-Irish tribesmen, a famously indomitable mountain people who have killed civilized men – and each other – for centuries. It appears that the wars that started on the fields of Bannockburn and Stirling have come to America.

As the sun sets over the former Confederate States of America, one wonders – can peace ever come to this land?

 

[Crazy Eddie]

It's a lot easier to publish bullshit about a subject where none of your readers have enough knowledge to call you on it.

And I just realized that basically sums up American Journalism in a nutshell.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Wait... am I supposed to interpret that article as being inaccurate in some way??

 

[Crazy Eddie]

Wait... am I supposed to interpret that article as being inaccurate in some way??

Well... it's not WRONG, but...

 

[bilby]

IT HAS HAPPENED AGAIN, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN:

Yet another massacre has occurred in the historically war-torn region of the Southern United States – and so soon after the religious festival of Easter.

Brian McConkey, 27, a Christian fundamentalist militiaman living in the formerly occupied territory of Alabama, gunned down three men from an opposing tribe in the village square near Montgomery, the capitol, over a discussion that may have involved the rituals of the local football cult. In this region full of heavily-armed local warlords and radical Christian clerics, gun violence is part of the life of many.

Many of the militiamen here are ethnic Scots-Irish tribesmen, a famously indomitable mountain people who have killed civilized men – and each other – for centuries. It appears that the wars that started on the fields of Bannockburn and Stirling have come to America.

As the sun sets over the former Confederate States of America, one wonders – can peace ever come to this land?

I think I recall reading that article in the Brisbane Courier Mail the other day.

 

[Axulus]

Do you have an example of a representitive article from the media doing that (and not from some sort of tabloid)?

 

[Tigers!]

Do you have an example of a representitive article from the media doing that (and not from some sort of tabloid)?

Axulus, Axulus
Who do you wish to end a rant so quickly by asking that question?