Posted on 01/04/2005 12:53:39 PM PST by Williams
For those that are old enough to recall...was there coverage like this of the 1976 earthquake in China? It was about twice as deadly as the current disaster.
It's actual news. Not manufactured controversy or celebrity watching or some media-sensationalized murder or Bill O'Reilly latest positive reviews of the performance of Bill O'Reilly.
It's horrifying in the human angle and awe-inspiring in witnessing the unstoppable fury of nature.
No, you're not. Just because the media goes 24/7 on a story doesn't mean it's the most important thing happening. Apparently, the President believes the media calls the shots though, and he's forgotten our other important priorities.
Hey, WE'VE had earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, etcetera . . . . Florida is still devastated.
Then I noticed that you've been a FReeper since 1997. Holy shiite! I apologize for even thinking of flaming such a distinguished member. ;-)
O'Reilly had a segment on his show about rating himself quite highly and has asked viewers to rate his coverage of that segment. /sarcasm
"Conservative commentators have noted that tragedies like Darfur and Rwanda killed more people but didn't get the coverage."
This is a very good point. Murder of blacks by blacks is not considered newsworthy by the MSM, regardless of the numbers involved. I guess it has to serve the 'agenda' to some extent, like an Iraeli soldier shooting a Palestinian teenager. All I can conclude for certain is that news has nothing to do with compassion or suffering.
Beats 10,000 hours of the "murder of the cute white woman of the week" coverage.
I do include Fox, certainly. Maybe I'm so sick of the media covering nothing that it annoys me even when they spend a lot of time on something important for a change. But I'll stand by my complaint that all their breathless and insincere coverage is excessive here. IMHO they are only gung ho about covering this tragedy because the UN put an anti Bush spin on it from the very beginning.
No flack from me, I agree with you. I've been trying to tune some of it out.
consider it a good opportunity to read some good books and learn more than television will ever teach you.
No, he's not the only one. This whole thing is being blown way out of proportion.
No Scott Peterson, no Kobe, no Rep. Condit, no Monica, no nuthin'. The MSM are too lazy to do any stories but the obvious and to dump on us Pubbies.
Michael Jackson's trial will get the tsunami off the air. Don't worry.
We're on the same page.
Wow, that must have been important if he would interrupt his ceaseless plugging of his book and his website to discuss it!
Actually I wish they'd cover MORE of the Tsunami victims and the relief efforts and LESS talking heads blathering on about opinions and Bush bashing.
You are right on. The coverage of the media on essentially any story is overblown these days. There is also no perspective given since there have been many worse disasters in recent years that were given far less press. We live in the era of talking heads and opinions and not news.
It beats non-stop coverage of each and every casualty in Iraq and Rumsfeld's subsequent failure to sufficiently emote over said casualties.
The wave of tsunami coverage should subside soon.
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