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JayMusgrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-05-09 08:33 AM
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9. I actually heard someone on Fox say "11 people died" in Strasbourg
I don't recall hearing it on any other channel. Googling for that, I see nothing.

Obama was to blame, of course, according to Fox.
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  -So why did CNN and MSNBC Highlight the Protests at the G20 Summit? FrenchieCat  Apr-05-09 12:34 AM   #0 
  - same reason they are making a big thing of Michelle/Carla Bruni  JI7   Apr-05-09 12:44 AM   #1 
  - Distract so as not to report what is really being accomplished,  FrenchieCat   Apr-05-09 12:46 AM   #2 
     - a bit of both  JI7   Apr-05-09 12:51 AM   #3 
  - Good visuals. If they had a pillow fight they would have taken that  grantcart   Apr-05-09 12:59 AM   #4 
  - It's amazing then that they ignored their opportunity at great visuals  FrenchieCat   Apr-05-09 01:03 AM   #5 
  - Yes. Give the masses 'bread and circus' (Juvenal -ancient Rome)  FailureToCommunicate   Apr-05-09 12:03 PM   #20 
  - They have been trying to tear him down since the day he was elected  Egnever   Apr-05-09 01:09 AM   #6 
  - There were more press than protesters  Uzybone   Apr-05-09 02:30 AM   #7 
  - They ALWAYS prefer conflict over cooperation. Nothing new. nt  Captain Hilts   Apr-05-09 07:42 AM   #8 
  - I prefer challenging the Wall Street crooks rather than cooperating with them.  Better Believe It   Apr-05-09 10:26 AM   #11 
  - I actually heard someone on Fox say "11 people died" in Strasbourg  JayMusgrove   Apr-05-09 08:33 AM   #9 
  - And if the media had ignored the protests would you have complained?  Better Believe It   Apr-05-09 10:25 AM   #10 
  - Exactly!*  DrToast   Apr-05-09 11:32 AM   #15 
     - Covering anything in context is what I'm after.....  FrenchieCat   Apr-05-09 12:28 PM   #23 
        - And you'll be the "decider" on media coverage of protests?  Better Believe It   Apr-05-09 03:23 PM   #28 
  - "See, that's why I don't trust anything our fucked up media says. "  DrToast   Apr-05-09 11:23 AM   #12 
  - NO.....I was reading an opinion not an article via that NYT OPed,  FrenchieCat   Apr-05-09 11:27 AM   #13 
     - The point is you believe this opinion piece unwaveringly  DrToast   Apr-05-09 11:32 AM   #14 
        - On that first day at the G-Summit, I personally could see exactly  FrenchieCat   Apr-05-09 11:49 AM   #17 
           - Yes, I recall...  DrToast   Apr-05-09 12:29 PM   #24 
              - Interesting that you would label me "ridiculous" for questioning the media and its motives.....  FrenchieCat   Apr-05-09 12:46 PM   #27 
  - I tend to think of the media covering protesters as a positive thing  last_texas_dem   Apr-05-09 11:39 AM   #16 
  - I think the media "uses" protests as they see fit.  FrenchieCat   Apr-05-09 11:50 AM   #18 
  - I agree, covering protests is a good thing.  biopowertoday   Apr-05-09 11:55 AM   #19 
     - But covering them selectively can be manipulative.  FrenchieCat   Apr-05-09 12:08 PM   #21 
  - I believe it's called "creating the narrative" in cable news vernacular.  Skidmore   Apr-05-09 12:26 PM   #22 
  - Have you lost your mind?  951-Riverside   Apr-05-09 12:38 PM   #25 
  - Stop covering protests? My point is the fact that they are just now  FrenchieCat   Apr-05-09 12:44 PM   #26 
  - You know very well Bush orchestrated media blackouts of things like political protests and  Runcible Spoon   Apr-05-09 10:12 PM   #31 
  - Eggzactly.  Runcible Spoon   Apr-05-09 10:06 PM   #29 
     - Here's where you run into a problem with your reasoning.....  FrenchieCat   Apr-05-09 10:10 PM   #30 
        - Yep, that's right.  Runcible Spoon   Apr-05-09 10:14 PM   #32 
           - Well, we will agree to disagree....  FrenchieCat   Apr-05-09 10:29 PM   #33 
  - They weren't anti-Obama were they? I'm pretty glad the protests get attention.  Political Heretic   Apr-05-09 11:05 PM   #34 
  - Odd....but the G20 Summit protest in Washinton DC in July of last year  FrenchieCat   Apr-05-09 11:18 PM   #35 
     - That's true. I don't know. They weren't violent either though...  Political Heretic   Apr-05-09 11:30 PM   #36 
  - cuz they punk ass chumps  Teaser   Apr-05-09 11:36 PM   #37 
 

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