I really wish there were more time in a day so I could put it into
investigating the media.
Here's just a couple of heavy hitter news links that consider the
Michael Jackson story more important than the explosion in Iraq that
killed 106 and wounded another 133, the biggest attack in 2 years. Look
for yourself:
http://www.cnn.com/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
http://www.nydailynews.com/today/-/-/default.asp
http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml
I have less than 0 interest in yet another sex scandal, and Pew Research
says 8% of people are following the story "very closely"
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=237. I suppose
there are that many people with nothing at all better to do, but by any
reasonable standard whatsoever, that story doesn't deserve top ranking
over this event in Iraq.
What's going on? Smoke, smoke and more smoke. That's what the whole
Social Security thing was, and now this. The handful of barons calling
the shots on major news reporting priorities are working overtime to
bring up "issues" to put in front of the Iraq debacle. That's what the
Social Security "crisis" was all about, and that's what this Michael
Jackson thing is all about. Who knows what they'll come with next, but
clearly they are in over-drive to play down the disaster that is Iraq.
Bill
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