I bet if Pew reseach asked people whether they watched Jerry Springer, they would get the sme 8%
results, but someone is watching it.
--- Alan Wyne <awyne at rollpak DOT com> wrote:
> 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.
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> 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?
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> Alan Wyne
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: profox-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profox-bounces at leafe DOT 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
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> I really wish there were more time in a day so I could put it into
> investigating the media.
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> 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
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> http://www.cnn.com/
> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
> http://www.nydailynews.com/today/-/-/default.asp
> http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/home/main100.shtml
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> 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.
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> 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.
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