900 pound gorillas are the 900 pound gorillas in the room....

One phrase I'm REALLY getting tired of is the whole "it's the gorilla in the room" or "it's the 900 pound gorilla in the room". Okay, we get the point. It's a cool phrase, or at least it was back in the 20th century. This is one of those phrases used when the media goes on cruise control and doesn't actually have anything inciteful, or even USEFUL to say. A good example is yesterday when Heath Ledger died. It's sad. Sorry, he died. But the cookie cutter, fill in the blank news casts are driving me freaking nuts. No, this is NOT the worst tragedy since Kurt Cobain. No, Heath Ledger wasn't a young Marlon Brando. He had one connected movie that got him noticed. Most of what he did in the past was trashy movies. A Knight's Tale should have actually got him deported. But yes, it's unfortunate that a young actor, just starting out (a decade or so into his already established career) died. But he wasn't Sean Connery, Robert Redford or even Paulie Shore. He was a somewhat okay actor that died earlier than he should have.

Can we PLEASE lose the insulting commentaries about how all the world is mourning this tragic loss. If the whole world was, that would be one thing, but the media is saying this stuff ONLY because this is what the media ALWAYS says. It's fill in the blank newscasting. This is the kind of crap that leads to what happened on 911. After the first plane hit the first tower, a newscaster was actually sitting in front of the camera saying "And this is when the healing must begin" as the second plane was still smashing into the next building. Cookie cutter journalism leads to people learning nothing from the news. But unfortunately, it happens more often than not.

Stumble It!