Today Show Headlines: Where Are the REAL Headlines?

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Here’s another one of Mama Kat’s Writer’s Workshop prompts. Her weekly writing assignments are tons of fun – check it out if you haven’t already. This week I chose this prompt: Choose a headline from The Today Show website and write up an opinion post based on the story you chose.

After looking over the Today Show headlines, I’ve decided to tweak this prompt a little bit. If you know how I feel about mainstream corporate media, my take on this won’t come as any surprise.

Here are the headlines for today:

Enrique Iglesias: I’ll water-ski nude to honor bet
Web only: Service pups get Prince Harry’s approval
No child’s play: Bottle bombs are dangerous pranks
Bristol will wear Herrera; camo for Levi, Tripp
Do men have a biological clock too?
Cheney ‘doing well’ after life-saving surgery
‘Bliss, Remembered’: Recalling love in a time of war
Love loungewear? Mix comfort and style
Recover from the health sins of your youth
TODAY crew serves up their best dishes
‘Hell’s Kitchen’ winner’s perfect potato potluck dish

So, these are the so-called “news headlines” for today, July 15, 2010. As you can see, some very tough, hard-hitting news. I mean, in the face of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, war on two fronts (we’ve been in Afghanistan longer than we were in Vietnam), environmental catastrophes, immigration reform controversy, the ongoing housing crisis, skyrocketing unemployment (and underemployment), thank goodness the Today Show is informing the masses about the perfect potato potluck dish and what Bristol Palin’s going to wear at her wedding. I’m sure senseless people everywhere will be glad to know that bottle bombs are “dangerous pranks”, I mean after all, they are senseless, right? I know I’ll sleep well tonight knowing that Prince Harry approves of his service pups, and that Enrique Iglesias is going to water ski naked, uh sorry, nude, to honor his bet. Oh yeah, thank you Today show for informing Americans that we can opt for comfort without sacrificing style – loungewear lovers everywhere rejoice!

Michelle

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5 thoughts on “Today Show Headlines: Where Are the REAL Headlines?”

I’m right there with you. American media has no clue what real news is anymore.
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Michelle on July 16, 2010 at 10:28 pm said:

@CoffeeJitters Thanks for the visit, and for taking the time to comment! Peace.

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So true that “hard hitting” news is hard to find. I have never seen, nor visited the website of The Today Show, so I have no reference…but those articles sound like something out of Yahoo! “News,” which is all about fluff. Crazy.

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