The early symptoms of the disease include angry red eyes, a hot fever, a forlorn loss of belief in any staid future and sudden horrible nausea...
An open letter to the Entire American Media.
Dear Leaders of our National Media (also FOX, NBC and Huffington Post),
We understand that your legacy in the internet era is a clean, well lighted brothel of skinny-pill ads, anti Obama screed links, old faces with peeled plastic skin, bikini-and-food porn and the odd reality-show dupe eating bugs. In other words we already know that you are whores, lackeys and failed Christians. Unfortunately you have all earned new and special criticism this week. One of you bastard hives in particular.
The morning Ebola headline at HuffPo (which has already been whitewashed away) speared good readers like a stave split from that last barrel of H.L. Mencken's blood that real journalists once used for ink.
The Demon Bug will require a lot of mature discretion on the public side. A man likes to know who will be on the side of reason before a streetfight like this one. To the entire media's discredit nobody in their camp comes to mind yet. Certainly not the Huffington Post which flagrantly converted the context of a WHO comment about ongoing infection rates in Africa into a toxic red scream that implied we can expect naked bubonic vomit-zombies to infest the entire Eastern Seaboard by sundown tomorrow. Even for those people it was a hell-hot blast of fire-in-a-theater rhetoric.
"Journalism" of late does lean to seeing who can wave a jingo torch of ignorance closest to whatever new lake of partisan gasoline greets us each day. Even so, this was a piece of higher treachery. H. P. committed the editorial equivalent of handing out blood-soaked voodoo dolls to describe Ebola.
Second place this week probably goes to the NBC "journalist" who broke a voluntary Ebola quarantine to drive through Manhattan looking for a twenty five dollar sandwich. But we can't be surprised by that really. We expect face melting hallucinations of brain-fouled self adulation from their kind of expert reporters. Also, they might actually get the foul necked virus and we wouldn't wish that hell upon anyone.
The Fox people are slow back in third on this. They are so busy blaming President Obama for not being able to force Republicans to let the Government do anything rational that they cannot even look out a real window to see what it is they are blaming on BLACKPOTUS this week. Fox runs a staggeringly delusional and transparently propaganda-driven machine. But we expect the arsonists of anti-science to piss fire all over the halls of reason. The bar for Fox reporters has not so much been set low as it has been buried halfway down Dante's coal speckled staircase.
This weekend all criticism ever levied upon failed American "Journalism" has come to pass. And by pass I mean the kind of jellied-rust spew that has for two decades been causing Medecin Sans Frontiers workers to wonder if Jesus had it easy on that cross. Today, failed intellectualism has a home and it is the Lady Huffington's Tea Parlor.
They emerged running away and never looked back. They rushed to embellish, exaggerate and falsify what few strands of factual calm were available this weekend. The header stack at Huff was an eye-bugging and rat-fucking inflammation of every politically sabotaged nerve ending in America. They did it to hype a few extra clicks on prostituted junk ads that even Fapping Frat boys and abandoned GOP housewives won't click on unless by a mistake of drunkenness and misapplied palsy medicine.
We need deliberate responsible Journalism without the quotations when it comes to Ebola. Fear mongering as usual will make a real epidemic a lot worse for all of us. A real epidemic is manageable but very possible. Someone at Huffington Post should pay a public price for this mistake. The Fox army is ranting in chorus that every doctor and scientist in America should be fired right away. All because almost as many American residents died this autumn from terrible Ebola as have died playing high school football. Somebody should get fired but not any of the health care professionals that we will expect to meet us at those midnight doors when every person in America has symptoms of an undiagnosed illness that can only be caused by two things.
One of which is just reading the news.
RFTHC