exactly why a spoiled brat "heiress’" misbehaviors and jailhouse antics {she’s in, she’s out, she’s in} rates such nonstop “news” coverage, while a man who has devoted his LIFE to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic” is fired and the ONLY mentions of this fact are incorporated in denigrating the man’s service.
Maybe I’m too critical, but it seems as though the “media’s” laziness is becoming more & more apparent. They try to stuff us full of pablum, via ‘reports’ that would better fill the pages of The National Enquirer, rather than seek out what is arguably “news” {ie, information we didn’t have before}.
If they were lucky, NBC devoted maybe 3 minutes to General Pace’s departure – however, they gave at least 5 minutes to the ‘Paris Hilton story’. Of course, NBC doesn’t bother even sending American reporters to Iraq anymore – their “reports” are provided by British or Australian reporters. Why don’t the ‘talking heads’ just phone in their reports?
I don’t happen to believe that the American people are so shallow – our ‘media’ however, to quote a man I used to date, is “shallow as pi$$ in a plate”.
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I guess it's a bit late to be commenting on this topic, but I just found this blog from a link at law dog.
Anyway ... true. Hilton nothing but fluff story however, were there no interest among many it's kinda doubtful it'd get so much coverage. It's even been covered here in the UK.
Ya take one pretty,very rich young girl whose claim to fame is sex and money and bingo. Boring? Sure, to you and I. But look at the success of sludge like Springer and a few others and you see the many millions of slack jawed not too well read if they read anything masses of ppl who find this worthy of lots of their attention. What else do they have in their lives?
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