"Journalist" Incompetence as My Sodom and Gomorrah Search for an Honest, Competent AP Reporter Continues

Beware of turning into a pillar of salt, as i continue to advise you to stay away from AP people and facilities (the "Anti-Amerian, Despicable Associated Press"--to use the complete, official name). Yep, my futile Sodom and Gmorrah search for a non-existent being--an honest, competent AP reporter--continues. From time to time, I like to note that the despicable AP is NOT just a PROPAGADNA machine with a political agenda, although it is certainly that . AP reprorters are also jsut plain incompetent. This was a featured headline last night on AT&T/Yahoo, from the AP:


"Deaths from painkiller overdose triple over the past decade"


I could only marvel at the INCOMPETENCE of that headline, AND the first pargraph 9you know, the "lead" paragraph that real "journalists" used to say had to include all of the essential "who, what, when, whre, how" kind of information). You don't understand what is wrong with this headline? Oh, you FOOL you. It is a SCARE headline--more unjustifiedly hysterical than any hyperbole in this blog. But it also says NOTHING (zllch, nada).


So painkiller overdose deaths "triipled" over the past decade. WHAT were the numbers? For example, did the "deaths" increase from 1 to 3? The number MATTERS. It is IMPORTATN. You won't find it out from the despicable AP--not in the headine and not in the lead paragraph. I never did find it out, because I quite reading. I have better things to do with my time than read INCOMPETENT AP articles that never get to the FACTS. What if the "deaths" a decade ago were especaily LOW? And has there been a rather uniform "trend", or a SPIKE (lke from 1 to 3), which might well be due to CHANCE alone? You won't find out from the despicable APP. And what about REPRORTING? Has there been some change in reporting, usch that the "deaths" are simply being better REPORTED? AGain, it is hopeless to even look to the AP. The despicable AP is simply not interested in FACTS. Oh, I assure you, it gets worse.


The "lead" paragraph, like the headline, gave you NO information. What it did do was emphasize the SCAREnature of the way the AP presented this story, which replaced all pretense at factual reporting. Instead of information, the "lead" paragraph quoted a "government health expert" (no wonder we have such a problem with our government health programs) for the purpose of calling this "rise" in painkiller overdose deaths as an EPIDEMIC. What can you cay about "journalists" and "health experts" this INCOMPETENT. "Epidemic" is the WRONG word (just as it is when applied to "obesity"). "Epidemic" is a wrod that applies to someting you CATCH (either directly from other human beings, or through some sort of agent,, like a mosquito). It DEVALUES the term, and totally misrepresents it, to appply the word" epidemic" to this kind of problem, especially since it is NOT really a BIG problem. To read the despcable AP, however, peole are dying like flies out there. But we are assured taht this "epidemic" can be "stopped".


Gee, I was worried (old sarcasm disease). Duh. You mean if peole don't take painkiller overdoses (which sometimes may be SUICIDE), they won't die? Than you, AP, for that incredible insight.


No. I keep tellng Hiim (and why, I, as an agnostic, should have to even have these conversations is cruel sadism on His part, along with this asis Sodom and Gomorrah assignment itself), it is HOPELSS. The despicable AP is HOPELESS. It is not only the wrong word to use "epidemic" in connection with an unkknown number of painkiller overdose deaths, but it is using the wrong word to call AP reporters (or any part of themainstream media, "journalists".