American Media is simply INSANE

[Vinnie From Indy]

Catching a bit of the national morning news shows as I get ready for the day, I was a bit shocked to see CBS spend 3 or 4 minutes on the Gulf oil spill disaster and then follow that up with an equally long story about some dumbass that scammed his way into Harvard. It simply boggles the mind that a national news organization would give EQUAL time to a story that could spell the doom for the Gulf of Mexico and the MILLIONS of people that the spill will effect and a young man that lied to get into Harvard and was caught. The unreality of it all is just stunning. I would truly love to meet the story editors at CBS that decide what news gets aired and ask them what planet they are living on. It is hard not to get depressed knowing that our mainstream media seems to be actively lying by ommission to the entire nation.

[Joanne98]

1. I know. MSNBC kept running a story about dirty underwear yesterday.

They're hopeless!

[Vinnie From Indy]

4. The producers at CBS also must feel that the trials and tribulations of John Travolta

are far more important to the American public than the Gulf spill, the economic turmoil in Europe and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. They just did a five minute story on the Travolta family. It is all so bizarre and I am sure that in some distant future, historians will marvel at the unreality of it all. Nero fiddles while Rome burns.

[Hannah Bell]

2. it's not news, it's propaganda. flat out.

[SoCalDem]

3. Commercials

No media today will dare to dig too deeply into the crack in to ocean floor created by BP because they make a LOT of money from the commercials for "energy" and since corporations are incestuous by nature, their companies/boards of directors/holding companies, etc are are co-mingled.

You can bet that the instant this broke, there were meeting all over the place to decide how the media would cover this story.

The loss of advertising is something they cannot afford, so we will still see the happy smiling people as they get the love on with "clean" coal, etc.

[raccoon]

6. Great point! "You can bet that the instant this broke, there were meeting all over the place to

decide how the media would cover this story."

I like the way you think! :hi:

[arcadian]

14. Yup, and I'm sure there is a study somewhere that shows

that depressed people don't spend money.

[havocmom]

5. US media: wholly owned subsidiary of Gobble the Globe Corporation

And Diversions 'r' Us is their marketing partner.

edited for typo, although my original goof made sense too

[Echo In Light]

13. +1...agendas to sell

[raccoon]

7. American Media is irrelevant; if I didn't know it before, I knew it a few weeks ago

when NBC evening news' leading story was Tiger Woods' apology for his sexual indiscretions.

[Joe Bacon]

8. Wow, what a difference when you watch the BBC

BBC's American news led off with the latest on the oil spill. A 10 minute in depth segment you won't see on American TV because our media is bought and paid for by the Republican Party.

[The_Commonist]

9. You watch TV News?

Well there's your first problem right there...

[lunatica]

10. What's wrong with equal time?

Isn't that what we've been asking for?

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[marions ghost]

11. I keep saying it

we are not seeing ANY interviews on TV with Gulf Coast scientists.

[jeffrey_X]

12. Another example.

During or after 60 Minutes on Sunday, CBS did one of their 30 or 45 second news clips. There were only two stories. The first was a quick blurb about the oil disaster in the Gulf, the other was the box office numbers for Iron Man 2.

Unfucking real.

[City Lights]

15. I have completely given up on the US "news" media.

I watch a bit of local news in the morning, to catch the weather forecast, but that's it.

[tsuki]

16. Jiggles in the Morning, HNN's menopausal ingénue. has had

a story on Tiger Woods every morning since "The Scandal" broke.