What’s News?

 

What is news? Edward R. Murrow said news is that which interests and affects the largest number of people. News is the reporting of history being made as it happens. News is the examination of facts surrounding the critical issues facing the community. The news is a collection of stories that provides a snapshot on the state of civilization. Here are some of the news stories that ran on the Reuters digest on Sunday.

The Palestinians have elected a new leader and by a considerable margin. The successor to the intransigent ego-crippled terrorist, Yassir Arafat, Mahmoud Abbas, is described as a moderate who is interested in talking peace with Israel.

In Iraq, where the hopes for peace seem stuck behind a distant horizon, U.S. forces killed a bunch of locals by mistake. Near Mosul, 14 civilians including seven children died when an American bomb hit the wrong house. In Baghdad, our troops shot to death two Iraqi policemen and two bystanders near a security checkpoint. Also in this hell, the police chief of Samarra was murdered by forces that disdain order.

An American sergeant was given six months and dropped a grade for having ordered American soldiers to toss two Iraqi men into the Tigris River. One drowned. The sergeant was cleared of murder but convicted of assault. He’ll remain in our military.

The Pentagon is said to be considering establishing "elite" hit-squads to kill insurgent leaders in Iraq. This, according to Newsweek. This is what American military did with American taxpayer dollars in Central America in the Eighties, apparently, they think, with success.

More brilliance from the Five-Sided Funny Farm. Despite a mind-numbing array of electronic information gathering equipment, one of our nuclear submarines ran aground off of Guam on Saturday. Not just nuzzling the sand, the collision injured twenty sailors, one fatally.

In the Sudan, government officials and rebels signed a peace agreement that will supposedly end a 21-year war. According to the news report, "Bare-chested warriors danced and turbaned heads bowed in prayer" sealing the agreement.

Meanwhile, however, American lame-duck Secretary of State Powell says genocide continues in the Darfur region of the Sudan.

Finally, Democratic party leader wannabes supplicated themselves into the dirt trying to persuade southern pols that the party of assess won’t neglect their red-neck brethren.

So much for the news.

And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.

 

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