I need a TV-B-Gone for the gym

[jbailey]

Dear CNN,

The US presidential election race between senators McCain and Obama is not a "battleground". Battlegrounds are where people get killed. Using the same words for what passes as democracy in this country as for the military massacres in foreign countries is incredibly sad and disgusting.

That, and it's only vaguely less stupid than Toronto's "War on Fire".

Comments

Re: Notsomuch

[auzure-skies.livejournal.com]

You're responding awfully strongly to an idle annoyance. I think that the point jbailey was trying to make is that the American media over-sensasionalises *everything*, just to make ratings. Seriously, using the word "battleground" to apply to an election race is just hyperbole. Maybe CNN is trying to get people to vote by making it exciting? Maybe the American public is too jaded to pay attention to anything that doesn't seem like a disaster, I don't know. All I know is that, as a Canadian, we have a much higher voter turnout and less "pow", "slash", "kablaam" style reporting than you guys do here.