Newsweek has a regular feature called “The Index” where the magazine picks out three current news events and maps them a 100-point scale, from Awful (1) to Awesome (100). The latest installment in the March 29 issue (which is not online) goes like this:
AWESOME (80): Dennis Kucinich, who has voted against a slew of Democratic initiatives (from the left), pledges to reverse himself on health care after previously voting no.
OK–a left-wing Democrat plays nice with the party and flip-flops on a key issue. Not hard to see why corporate media would think that’s awesome. Next:
AWFUL (16): Oh, Rielle. For a while there, before your creepy photo spread in GQ, you were playing the part of the quiet mistress quite well.
Rielle Hunter–the mother of John Edwards’ child–took some tawdry photos.
And, then, right in the middle, with a score of 52:
Intensified use of drone-fired missiles is wiping out militants in Pakistan. But can we see the legal memos justifying “targeted assassinations”?
Using remote-control weaponry to kill people in an undeclared war in another country, possibly in violation of international law, and certainly killing innocent civilians in the process…. Yes, it is hard to take a position on that.
Numerically speaking, the 52 score is slightly closer to the “awesome” Kucinich decision than to the “awful” photo shoot.
Slutty McSluttersons are much worse than murder, y’know.
Remote control death—the Droid Army on the march for the Republic! ” Awsome!!!” But maybe awful if they are used here to target militias, or labor unions may rate a 52. Who can tell. I am sorry for Kucinich who probably will lose his seat because of relenting to the pressure of the Obamamonster. A NO Win situation is just that. But then I wonder how many want to be rid of one of the few Progressives we still have in gov’t.
WTF? With no sense of morals or civil behavior, Newsweek classifys murdering people anonomously, as a little less impressive, than a politician switching votes on a bill, but in better taste than Reille in a provacative photo pose?
Such reckless, irresponsible editing must represent their void ethics code,–sad that they have a significant audience to impose it upon.