I know that I’m not a complete whackjob, and I know that I read breaking news in a bright red banner atop the CNN.com homepage yesterday morning stating that Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf was stepping down as the Pakistani Army Chief. A move that would most likely send some ripples throughout newsrooms, military men, and Wall Street.Â
When I went back to CNN.com there was no story about such action on the past of Musharraf on the website. Nothing! Then yesterday evening went I went to look for some sort of “Oops” news story talking about some internet hoax, the only thing that I could find even slightly related to this was a Forbes news story and this was then a 12 hour old story.
a) What has really happened if anything?
b) Is there some sort of media blackout on this news story that we being cut out of?
c) Tomorrow are they going to say that Tupac and Princess Di have been found alive and living together in the jungles of Guatamala?
Thankfully there is a blog about Pakistan that is covering this possible story. Break out your weird/wutwazthat sticks kiddos.
The Times, via Reuters, has an update. No deal yet.
“In a related news story, reported by the National Enquirer…”
It sounds like cover-up. When I was living abroad, there were entire news stories that were cut out of American media. I would call home and ask my family if they had seen this “newsbreak” and that. And they of course, hadn’t heard about it. We have to understand the American press is filtered a watered-down to make it more digestible and more biased than ever.
It’s like that news story (that never broke) about the UCLA Tasering incident at last year. Completely swept under the rug. [Warning: This video footage is vastly disturbing.]
Wow, that UCLA police video was disturbing. I hope that those “police” officers were arrested and are doing time for that. They had no right to keep using the taser on someone who would’t or couldn’t get up while already cuffed.