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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:17 PM
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Why is the news giving heavy coverage to Elizabeth Smart & minimal coverage to the Sanders
filibuster?

The Smart verdict's impact on 99.99999999% of the american public = ZERO. ZERO. ZERO.
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Jackpine Radical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:19 PM
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1. Who is Elizabeth Smart?
Seriously--I'm totally unplugged from the Toob.
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librechik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:20 PM
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2. why do you think?
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:21 PM
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3. Blond female victim vs angry old man? Are you kidding? n/t
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Roland99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:22 PM
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4. teh winnar!
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Arkansas Granny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:29 PM
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7. You got it!
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:23 PM
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5. For the same reason that people watched Bristol Palin dance.
Surely you do not think that most people are all that interested in what goes on in the Senate. Those who are interested are a tiny minority. You will not change that, no matter how hard you try.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:33 PM
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12. funny that the filibuster is getting tons of mentions via twitter & other social media, then.
since nobody's interested.
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:35 PM
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15. i'ms ure celeb gossip shit gets tons of mention on twitter and things also
this is a case of "but everyone i hang out with............."
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:36 PM
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16. i don't have twitter, so it's nothing to do with who i hang out with.
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:46 PM
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i don't either, but my point is the same
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JI7 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:46 PM
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23. i don't either, but my point is the same
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:42 PM
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19. Did I say that nobody was interested? I did not.
You asked why this is not the top of the news. I offered a reason. There it is.
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:23 PM
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6. I think crime and war have always been the mainstay of cable news.
Not to disparage coverage of either, but they have clear cut "events" that can be covered in a more cursory way than politics and political debate, especially.

Then there's always the celebrity goings on to fill 24 hours...
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pinto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:31 PM
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10. And, a follow up aside, this makes a good case for C-SPAN. A great resource.
Live, direct and the viewers can draw their own conclusions.
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Delphinus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:30 PM
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8. Rhetorical question, yes?
If only we (the American public) would wake up.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:31 PM
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9. She's cuter than Bernie.
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Kennah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:32 PM
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11. That's nothing
http://news.google.com/news/search?aq=f&pz=1&cf=all&ned=us&hl=en&q=kate+gosselin
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Dawson Leery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:43 PM
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20. Cheap (attention) whores always get the most attention.
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BrendaBrick Donating Member (859 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:34 PM
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13. I don't know who Elizabeth Smart is either.....
...but as far as *News* coverage is concerned.....why is PBS the ONLY news source who, on Fridays at the end of the broadcast respectfully elicits a moment of silence in respect of the ACTUAL pictures, names and ranks and place of birth of our soldiers just killed in this awful war this week?

That's REAL to me as I am sure it is even more real to the spouses and families who now have to try and go on and live their lives without their loved one...not to mention the fact of the non-US innocent human being civilians that were killed in this war as well whose names and pictures will remain faceless...therefore - out of sight - out of mind!
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emulatorloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:35 PM
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14. I had to turn to Fox News to see Bernie Sanders!
Edited on Fri Dec-10-10 04:36 PM by emulatorloo
Fortunately it was during Shepard Smith's time, he is least likely to spin. Actually he was being pretty straightforward in the coverage, at least for the time I watched it.

But I don't have C-SPAN today for some reason, and no body else was showing him.
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oberliner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:38 PM
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17. While DU is giving heavy coverage to the Sanders filibuster & zero coverage to Elizabeth Smart
I think the verdict is at least worth a mention.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:40 PM
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18. Because M$Greedia has no plan of covering
opposition to tax cuts for the rich. Plueeeeez.
Of course they're covering Bubba's press conference.
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RadicalTexan Donating Member (607 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:44 PM
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21. Because the television news media is entirely owned by our corporate masters?
Just a hunch.
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kctim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:46 PM
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22. Because Sanders politics are not representative of the majority of the country
So the number who care about the Smart verdict probably out numbers the number who agree with Sanders.
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Hannah Bell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 05:10 PM
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26. the majority of the country hasn't been exposed to the data that sanders is presenting.
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 05:12 PM
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27. Bingo.
And by covering Elizabeth Smart, the corporate masters can assure status quo.
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kctim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 05:51 PM
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29. They don't care about his views on the 'data'
hell, half probably don't even agree with his opinions of what the data shows. They care about their own finances and right now, he is the reason why they may end up with a pay cut.

Like it or not, while the majority of Americans may envy the rich, they do not resent them enough to bleed themselves, in order to make them bleed.
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 04:50 PM
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24. Filibusters, by definition, are long, drawn-out affairs.
You don't think the police incompetence, failure of public mental health care or the religious issues in the Smart case (a police officer was told she could not remove her veil due to religion while she was still a hostage of the two accused, which lead to more months of captivity and rape) affect anyone?
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Dec-10-10 05:14 PM
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28. Difference was we weren't in the middle of a Constitutional Crisis,
Republicans weren't holding poor people hostage and the corporations weren't actively raping and pillaging our country during the daylight hours.
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