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Celebrities take to Twitter to salute Robin Williams
FoxNews.com ^ | August 11, 2014 | FoxNews.Com

Posted on 08/11/2014 5:31:35 PM PDT by Biggirl

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1 posted on 08/11/2014 5:31:35 PM PDT by Biggirl
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Another entertainer’s death that the media will make a national event.


2 posted on 08/11/2014 5:36:01 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: Biggirl

The Fisher King was sublime.


3 posted on 08/11/2014 5:39:12 PM PDT by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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The Red Knight won.
4 posted on 08/11/2014 5:47:22 PM PDT by Benito Cereno
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To: ansel12

What entertainer’s death should be a national event then?


5 posted on 08/11/2014 6:01:07 PM PDT by Borges
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To: Biggirl

I wonder what he believes about God... now...


6 posted on 08/11/2014 6:43:28 PM PDT by dps.inspect (rage against the Obama machine...)
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To: Biggirl

I believe Fox News just reported that the White House will be making a statement over Robin Williams however no statement from the Kenyan Muslim over Christians that are being slaughtered.


7 posted on 08/11/2014 6:45:54 PM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Borges

You tell me, Madonna, Michael Jackson, George Clooney, Robin Willaims?

I’m a grown man, 60 years ago men didn’t have to be exposed to all this womanly and teen girl stuff.


8 posted on 08/11/2014 6:54:20 PM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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It’s nothing new. When Mark Twain died in 1910 it was national (and international news).


9 posted on 08/12/2014 7:23:44 AM PDT by Borges
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Yes it is new, female and male news/information used to be separate, men could live in a world of news and foreign affairs and largely outside of the world of pop culture, it is why newspapers had a women’s section, and news magazines had few photos and little about entertainment.


10 posted on 08/12/2014 7:46:03 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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I don’t know what any of this has to do with someone’s sex. As I’ve said when people like Mark Twain and Will Rogers died it was huge news.


11 posted on 08/12/2014 7:56:32 AM PDT by Borges
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You don’t even know what sex has to do with this?

Are you young, too young to remember how the 1960s also destroyed media and news?


12 posted on 08/12/2014 8:00:46 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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You have some unrelated beef that you’re trying to attach to this story. I’m guessing you think that Arts news is inherently feminine? I could name as many examples as you want that predate the 60s. Rudolph Valentino’s early death was a huge news story. So was Carole Lombard’s.


13 posted on 08/12/2014 8:05:06 AM PDT by Borges
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You don’t even know what sex has to do with this?

Are you young, too young to remember how the 1960s also destroyed media and news?

My point was simple, I regret that one of the things we lost after the 60s was a male dominated news industry, where news was geared to important male oriented issues.

I miss the dry reading of my childhood, and this triviality is the biggest reason that the old news media lost it’s core audience of men, my guess is that you didn’t see the media transition to this because you are too young.


14 posted on 08/12/2014 8:21:32 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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You’re making assumptions about what constitutes ‘masculine’ and ‘feminine’ news. There is nothing feminine or trivial about reporting on the death of a cultural figure.


15 posted on 08/12/2014 8:24:55 AM PDT by Borges
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I don’t know what any of this has to do with someone’s sex. As I’ve said when people like Mark Twain and Will Rogers died it was huge news.

You are correct. The death of a national celebrity has always been big news. The death of Rudolph Valentino is another example. The difference today is that, with 24 hour news cycles, outlets like TMZ, Entertainment Tonight, and the cable news channels, these stories quickly reach the point where they are no longer "news", and become exploitation.

16 posted on 08/12/2014 8:35:08 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: Borges

You don’t even know what sex has to do with this?

Are you young, too young to remember how the 1960s also destroyed media and news?

You really don’t know how the feminists made the media what it is that you are so devoted to today and that the rest of us are so repulsed by with it’s celebrity/entertainment obsession, do you?


17 posted on 08/12/2014 8:37:54 AM PDT by ansel12 (LEGAL immigrants, 30 million 1980-2012, continues to remake the nation's electorate for democrats)
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To: Borges; Biggirl
Didn't we just go through this with Philip Seymour Hoffman? He was another actor who killed himself.

-PJ

18 posted on 08/12/2014 8:43:25 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Biggirl; flaglady47; Maine Mariner; mickie; pax_et_bonum
I wonder if the national news media would go into such a drawn-out, concentrated, adoring frenzy over an actor's suicide if the deceased was a staunch conservative instead of a dedicated, rabid lefty like Williams?

Did the media go bonkers for hours and days when Charleton Heston passed normally several years ago?

Leni

19 posted on 08/12/2014 8:44:16 AM PDT by MinuteGal
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Charlton Heston was in his mid 80s and suffering from Alzheimer’s. His death wasn’t a shock. A suicide of a major celeb who isn’t elderly will always be huge news.


20 posted on 08/12/2014 9:05:13 AM PDT by Borges
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