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Really CBS News, Really?

I’m supposed to be working right now, but CBS News posted a story that is such a fucking joke that I had to stop what I was doing to comment on it.

The headline reads, “James Cameron Brainstorms with Gov’t on Spill,” the story tells of how the federal government has enlisted the help of the movie director and some “scientists and other experts.” Cameron has been brought on board to assist with underwater filming.

Cool…makes sense, filming the spill is important and Cameron does have quite a bit of experience running a camera under water. Now CBS, do tell, who are the other experts? I mean, here we are in the middle of the biggest environmental disaster, people are wondering what exactly the government is doing to help and are eagerly waiting to hear anything that can remotely resemble action and positive news.  Surely, when your crack journalists learned of a group of experts that had been called together, they rushed to find out the who, what and why each of these individuals were being counted on to fix the problem.

Well…fuck…nope…no you didn’t. No names, no occupations, no nothing except for the Oscar winning, pop-culture, page view earning special effects director who will be running the camera for this “expert” team we don’t know about.

Even worse, this is in your special “Disaster in the Gulf” section, this is something you are putting out there as real news, real journalism. At best, this should be in your entertainment section.

What the headline doesn’t say, but should, is “We don’t think our audience really gives a shit about anything. Look here, you’ve heard of James Cameron, CLICK HERE!”

Shame on you assholes. Stop dropping the ball and do your job.

UPDATE: Okay, so they did include it in their entertainment section. That doesn’t change where they placed it in their Gulf Disaster section, the joke of a headline, and the total lack of real reporting in the article.