femminista: thoughts of a feminist rhetorician

In a brilliant publishing oversight, Bloomberg financial newswire published Steve Jobs' obituary yesterday. The problem is--Steve Jobs isn't dead. I'm not sure what's more disturbing--the shock of Jobs' non-death or the fact that Bloomberg has a 17 page draft of his obituary, clearly an ongoing project. I guess it never occurred to me that some people's obits are written in advance. Gawker has published the lengthy obituary here.

So, I would like to make a small addition to my previous post.  No, I am not going to take back what I said about pundits.

Will the news stations start reporting the news instead of promoting debates as though they were promoting a wrestling match? I turn on MSNBC tonight and I'm appalled within the first minutes of listening. Am I appalled by deaths in Iraq, embassies being bombed, people starving? No. Because none of those things were mentioned. Instead, I hear about the "face-off" between Barack and Hillary. I read "which Clinton will show up." I hear about how the election has already been decided. Oh, yeah, and I've been exhorted to watch the "post-game" show. Wait a second. In what way does choosing the future leader of this country seem analogous to a football game? To whom is this a game?