Are We Distracted by the Side Shows?

[The Whiskey Priest]

So much that the parade is passing us by?

The death of the Pope
The marriage of the Dope

It seems we wake up each day to a new novelty act that keeps us distracted for that 24-hour news cycle. All the while, the rich and their paid political traitors are dismantling our country.

It’s really hard to keep focused on what is being carted away when we are looking at the freaks in the sideshow.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Of course we are.

That's why the media exists.

[Teaser]

2. Uh...yeah.

As far as anyone knows, we've won in Iraq and all our troops are safe at home...for all the coverage they get in the media.

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. Michael Jackson trial. Michael Jackson trial.....

is there some other important news story? What can be more important than Jacko?

:sarcasm:

[BiggJawn]

4. And the New Jersey car chase and amber hostage yellow alert situation

And the dude in the Matrix outfit that figured out how to get out of having to do 2 suitcases full of scummy underwear at the laundromat...

[Swede]

5. Well I can walk and chew gum at the same time.

But I know what you're saying. People that don't follow politics for whatever reason lap up all the other stuff. I bet CNN's ratings are way up over the last month or so.

[bloom]

6. that's why it's just as well to avoid

CNN, the networks, FOX.

I don't expect them to cover the news.

If people want to watch that sort of thing for entertainment, fine. Just don't pretend it's news.

[doublethink]

7. Michael Jackson, Who's The Next Pope, Michael Jackson, Who's ....

the next Pope, Michael Jackson, Who's the next Pope ..... FFFFFfffKKK! :argh: ... click tv's off. :)

[dandrhesse]

8. yes but here is something constructive to do:

Start sending Trent Lott, Chairman of the Senate Rules committee a snail mail letter or call his office every single week and tell him to call for public hearings on the half dozen election reform bills they have stuck in his committee. He is the only one who can move them to the senate floor for debate and vote.

Let him know that you know that he has almost everything we need to have free and fair elections sitting in his committee gathering dust. How Patriotic is that?

[Lone Pawn]

9. Was the Pope Catholic?

[UTUSN]

10. Since You Asked: No.

SCHIAVO was not a distraction---it showed the Repuke/wingnut/fundies ASSAULTING democracy.

The media coverage of the pope WAS over-extended, but there are embedded issues there---

We can handle more than ONE issue at a time.

[The Whiskey Priest]

11. Exactly what were the issues?

Did any of this have anything to do with the assault that is currently going on? SCHIAVO was nothing but the rants of some ultra-religious sect.

Was the death of the Pope that important? I fail to see an issue there, certainly not to match the bankruptcy act.

We can handle more than one issue at a time...the only thing is that we are feed and consume the trivial, while overlooking the important.

[UTUSN]

12. I Said the MEDIA COVERAGE, Not THE DEATH-of

The Bankruptcy Act happened a couple of weeks before, and I didn't notice a whole lot of posts here.

In the COVERAGE of the pope's death, there were THESE issues (being ignored):

1) The pope's covering up the sex-abuse, the PEACE clergy being incarcerated, the WINGNUT pope TO COME.

2) The TRIVIAL?

Again, it ain't this PARTICULAR INDIVIDUAL that is the issue, any more than it was Terri SCHIAVO. It's what it MEANT. What would you like us to talk about?