You are wrong. This is about money. People watch this on TV, buy
magazines that write articles about it and listen to radio programs
about that talk in detail about it. These so called "media barons"
aren't hiding anything, they are giving people exactly what they are
demanding and in the process making money. I can honestly say I have
never watched, read, or discussed this case, or any of the other so
called "high profile" cases in the last 5 years. But then, I also am
not a target market for advertisers.
You want this to be more than it is......it's people. I bet if Pew
Research was actually able to watch the viewing/reading/listening habits
of those same people, the percentage would be far above 8%. Who they
hell is going to admit to being infatuated with this sh*t. But in the
end, media and news is about entertainment. Why do you think national
news is covering Jackson and not your local school board meeting?
Alan Wyne
-----Original Message-----
From: profox-bounces AT leafe .DOT com [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On
Behalf Of Bill Arnold
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2005 6:41 PM
To: 'ProFox Email List'
Subject: [OT] the overwhelming importance of Michael Jackson
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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