How else to explain last Thursday's orgy of Michael Jackson coverage on CNN — hours of choppercam shots of airport runways and police station parking lots — on the day that Bush was being trashed in effigy in London, 27 people were killed and 400 injured by truck bombs in Turkey, a U.S.-Canada task force report on the causes of August's massive blackout was released and who knows how many U.S. troops were becoming casualties in Iraq?
Was CNN merely pandering to the stupid for commercial reasons — or deliberately avoiding the news? Has last spring's "That's Mili-tainment!'' revue reverted to "That's Info-tainment!'' Have the networks run so far from serious reportage on domestic, economic and international affairs that they no longer know how to do anything but scandal? Or — and here comes my conspiracy theory — is there something else afoot, and people are too catatonic to recognize it?
Consider that, still, most Americans are convinced that Saddam's boys rammed those planes into the towers....
Deadline Iraq offers little news to the most addicted news junkies. At least not those in Canada. In the U.S., where the coverage was USA-all-the-way, it would be an eye-opener. But you can bet CNN viewers will never see anything like it....Why would the networks 'fess up to hiding so much of the truth? Which only helps prove that conspiracy theory of mine: Michael Jackson is a spook working for Dick Cheney.
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