Posted on 08/08/2005 12:08:56 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Everytime some politician farts or a blond girl disappears, it's GongShow time with the FOX NEWS ALERT nonsense.
Gretta VanUseless / Tabloid Tabbitha. I can't stand her.
And a bottle of shampoo... oh wait she did start washing her hair about a year ago.
You honestly believe there aren't cases in the US every day in which the officials, for personal reasons, make no effort to solve the case and actually try to ensure no resolution is ever made?
Gee, you're really into this, eh?
I agree. Since I'm not a tabloidphile, I never watch this crap. The Discovery Channel, the Western Channel, or War Stories, and M*A*S*H are my primary choices. Otherwise a Tom Clancy-type book.
Greta on content: "I obviously don't program for the people in the news room or my friends or the people I went to law school with. I program for the viewer."
In the other words (nose-in-air): "I'm just schlepping 'bread & circus' stuff for the chumps in fly-over land."
I haven't watched Fox news in weeks, mebbe the last time they had a `Bigfoot' sighting alert. Or maybe it was Jacko.
How about if we give the Dutch an offer they can't refuse (say, the 2005 equivalent of 60 guilders) for Aruba? It would make a nice base of operations off the coast of Venezuela...
I never watched this crap. It's a waste of mental bandwidth.
IF you ask me there is a lot of suspicious behavior on the part of the missing Girl. I think she was drunk and They took advantage of her. When you are 18 in a foreign country your inhibitions disapear. I don't think she was miss innocent. She got away from home and may have became the freak of the week and paid the price for it.
Fox ought to try it. Sounds like a perfect early afternoon show for them.
Same here..not a tabloidphile. I do really watch Fox News after 6:59 in the evening (daily viewing for me is Britt Hume's show, every night). I will admit that I watch (and like) Tucker Carlson's show. But those are my only nightly "musts".
I do too. The Aruban authorities are trying their best to protect their own. It is disgusting. In this case, Greta and the rest of the media are doing the right thing and playing watchdog to the corrupt government in Aruba.
That would be my reason for begging for an assignment there.
There is ZERO news value in this story. none. Nada.
It should not be on the air at all.
But, if given the opportunity to go, I would do it admittedly just to be there for awhile.
Not one minute? Do you mean to say that you watch FNC but not O'Reilly, H & C or Greta? All three have regular coverage of Aruban politics.
My interest is in the who-dunit angle, but only to see if the media will dig up the drug money connection, thereby exposing the phony War On Drugs. Natalee's "disappearance" is the tip of an iceberg, IMO. There's a lot more here than meet's the eye and I think that's why Fox (and CNN) might be paying more attention to the story. But maybe that's giving them more credit than they deserve.
Exactly. I think they would have in the past, but that was when news was actually news.
A symbiosis has developed between the family, Greta/Fox and obsessive viewers. The family feeds information based on rumor and speculation to keep their daughter's name in the news, the media promotes these stories because it gives them something new to talk about and hence maintain their ratings and the obsessive viewers keep watching because, well they are obsessed.
pMSNBC's already tryed it. Didn't work.
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