July 22, 2003

silhouette3.JPG From the desk of Jane Galt:

More breaking news

The Eiffel Tower is on fire. Predictibly, American news outlets eschew reporting this in favor of pictures of people sitting in lawn chairs along the roads in Jessica Lynch's hometown.

Posted by Jane Galt at July 22, 2003 02:19 PM | TrackBack | Technorati inbound links
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Not sure if you're being sarcastic or what. Why would we rather watch a French monument burn when we could watch a genuine American homecoming? Nobody does it better than us.

Posted by: Chuck on July 22, 2003 03:18 PM

I think a split-screen would be pretty hilarious.

Posted by: md on July 22, 2003 03:36 PM

Let it burn. Why should US news channels pander to the tiny fraction of Frenchmen in the US?

Posted by: sweetums on July 22, 2003 05:42 PM

Second on the split-screen (while I split my sides laughing!).

Seriously, though, I'm sure the fire was innocuous - someone just burned a soufflé or some such.

Posted by: Michael Ubaldi on July 22, 2003 06:30 PM

Most of us would have assumed that it was a scene from "Mars Attacks!" anyway:

President: No, Pierre--don't collaborate with them! Don't--!

[shot of dead French leader dropping the phone, as Martians gleefully run around shooting people. Paris is burning]

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*sigh* Someone ship them a pile of crappy country music, and get ready for some serious foreign aid requests.

Posted by: M. Scott Eiland on July 22, 2003 09:58 PM

I admit to occasionally wondering, but I think CNN is still a US company. And it was over in what, less than an hour? And guess what was involved? TV FACILITIES!

Posted by: John Anderson on July 26, 2003 04:14 AM

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