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Soviet-Style 'Journalism'--God Bless Amerikwa

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Leonard Rouse
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Last night as I was going to bed, I turned on WWL, 870am from New Orleans. It was just before midnight, central time. A local show (I think) was going off the air (to give way to Art Bell/Coast-to-Coast).

The host was wrapping up going into the news break.

A (closely) paraphrased transcript:

". . .you may remember that web poll we began at the start of the show. We asked, 'Immigrants: Do they steal Americans' jobs or do they do jobs Americans don't want to do?'

"Earlier the results were 71% said immigrants steal American jobs and only 29% responded that they do jobs Americans won't do.

"Well, it's flipped-around entirely. The final results are 51% say immigrants do jobs Americans don't want to do, and only 49% say immigrants steal American jobs.

That's all the time we have. See you tomorrow. Good night."

Cuts straight into national news.

A true WTF moment, not to mention unbelievable. I'm reminded of the stories of the Soviet Union, where if they reported it was raining you'd best check outside for yourself.


 
Posted : 12/10/2011 3:55 pm
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