Hunt for Bin Laden

[Rainstorm]

Found this article and laughed my ass off!!!

Source (http://www.bigbrainboy.com/blog/bigbrainboy/the_sad_sad_face_of_ modern_journalism)

http://homepage.mac.com/dezendorf/binladen.jpg

"My friend James snapped this quick photo and emailed it to me with the following:

Not much to be said here. This does rule out the terrifying possibility of an unkillable zombie Bin Laden though. Does anyone know how to become an ‘expert’ for the news media? Seems like an easy job.


Perhaps journalists have figured out the ultimate way to become objective: cover all possible bases and consider every angle no matter how unlikely. Perhaps this is CNN’s new approach after cancelling shows like “Crossfire” where ‘experts’ constantly disagreed. It is nice to see all the ‘experts’ agree. CNN’s headline is true since being either dead or alive satisfies both possibilities of that boolean condition. I think this is why Dan Gilmor and others are pushing for grassroots journalism that maintains the author’s voice."

[FMtRIS]

Holy crap, more self fulfilling news from the talking heads! CNN and indeed most western news services are so full of themselves that now they are becoming retarded. What ever happened to analysis from the masses, not TO them? This is so sad coming from a supposed well reputed news service. I didn't give them that title, they were just one of the first for real time, uh, "news." "Watch CNN and I will bring back the sun!" Comedy can only hope to be as funny as real life sometimes.

[IncitedJester]

This is almost worthy of the humor section. And seriously... how hard could it be to find a guy that literally stands above the crowd, carries around an oxygen tank, and always travels with his own film crew?
As for CNN... I quit watching them when I moved out of my parents house. I found that the internet was a far more reliable source. Middle Schoolers were my next choice.

[WhiteCrowUK]

I've put this about the guys at work and we are unanimous in our conclusion that it is either a fake or really bad reporting! ;)

[Darth Cluich]

I've put this about the guys at work and we are unanimous in our conclusion that it is either a fake or really bad reporting! ;)

My vote is the latter.

[Reformer56]

This is almost worthy of the humor section. And seriously... how hard could it be to find a guy that literally stands above the crowd, carries around an oxygen tank, and always travels with his own film crew?
As for CNN... I quit watching them when I moved out of my parents house. I found that the internet was a far more reliable source. Middle Schoolers were my next choice.

Actually its something for his kidney, but this is true he is probably the tallest Middle Eastern man around. The guy has to phsyically stop for almost 12 hours every time to administer the meds themseleves and he has to be getting a supply from somewhere. One would think this would be like finding an orange in a bushel of apples.

[Ves]

One would think this would be like finding an orange in a bushel of apples.
Probably because they actually don't want to find him. At the moment, he's a broken symbol cowering in a cave. If he's found he'll either be killed at the scene or worse executed somewhere. At which point he becomes a martyr and that's something we really don't need.

His kidney medication is dialysis (sp?) which requires one of those bloody great big machines to do it, and a power source. I reckon even military intelligence might be able to see that a cave has mains power and put 2 and 2 together :D

[Hagakure]

http://homepage.mac.com/dezendorf/binladen.jpg

I knew it. Sneaky son of a bitch...

[Reformer56]

Probably because they actually don't want to find him. At the moment, he's a broken symbol cowering in a cave. If he's found he'll either be killed at the scene or worse executed somewhere. At which point he becomes a martyr and that's something we really don't need.

Yeah a martyr is the last thing we really need, I agree. But hasn't most of the searching been left to Afghan warlords? I mean no offense but that couldn't be too efficient. I mean yeah they might know the region but their motivation probably isn't patriotism of their country its probably money.

[Ves]

I mean no offense but that couldn't be too efficient.
My point exactly. If you want to look like you're searching for something, but you're not actually intent on doing that good a job, then a group of inefficient and possibly corrupt people would be perfect to do it.