mwb970
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Thu Aug-25-05 09:39 PM
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This "missing person" theme on cable news is getting weird. |
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Here's what I had available on the five cable news channels I watch between 10:30 and 10:35 ET this evening:
CNN Headline News Christian Julian Irwin, missing music producer.
CNN Chris Caldwell - went missing during a cruise.
CNBC Natalee.
MSNBC Olivia Newton-John's missing boyfriend.
Fox News Natalee. (Obviously - it's Greta. Why doesn't she just move to Aruba?)
Come on, now. Even in August, there has to be more news than this! Wasn't there a bit of nastiness, and another missed deadline, in Iraq today? I'm not hearing much about that.
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Thu Aug-25-05 09:44 PM
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sharks are somehow involved? :shrug:
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Solomon
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Fri Aug-26-05 12:54 AM
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10. LOL The One Missing Person story they DON'T focus on is Osama |
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Thu Aug-25-05 09:47 PM
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why certain missing person stories get so much persistent attention and others get none? Is it truly the 'damsel in distress sells news' idea at work? (Which of course does not explain the guys here I know, but what is it that drew EVERY NETWORK and CABLE channel to that runaway bride?)
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Thu Aug-25-05 09:59 PM
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3. Bright, shiny objects to distract you |
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from the news they should be reporting. :popcorn:
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Thu Aug-25-05 10:02 PM
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4. Here's a psych explanation |
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Edited on Thu Aug-25-05 10:02 PM by snot
Not that I'm credentialled . . .
but the most effective kinds of distraction or sublimation are those that echo or harmonize with the concerns they seek to distract us FROM.
We're living in a time in which people have been swept up and detained at Guantanamo for years, or secretly carried off to foreign countries for torture via "rendition"; an age in which Rumsfeld has his own, covert team, accountable to no one, authorized to kidnap and "disappear" people at their own discretion . . . an age in which the government thinks it can "disappear" reality itself; in which the media and our government feel free to ignore the concerns of the people, even as expressed in their attempts to vote--protests happen but are not reported; the will of the people simply disappears into some black electronic hole . . .
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Thu Aug-25-05 11:57 PM
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5. people are getting disappeared in the US, or so I hear |
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It may be a bit more literal than the renditions or Guantanamo etc.
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Fri Aug-26-05 12:11 AM
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The missing person theme is directly connected to the missing persons of the war on terror. The real missing person is Jose Padilla, American citizen locked away for three years with no trial and no charges and no prospect for trial or charges, arbitrarily, on the say-so of the executive branch. All the missing person stories track back to that. What's really missing is not Natalee Holloway, or Olivia Newton John's boyfriend, but the sense of comfort in democracy itself. These are just phantasmatic substitutes for that.
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Fri Aug-26-05 12:38 AM
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8. fascinating analysis, thanks n/t |
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Fri Aug-26-05 12:23 AM
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7. WTF could they possibly have to say about Holloway at this point? |
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What news could possibly coming out of there?
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Fri Aug-26-05 01:10 AM
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11. Show: Natalee is still missing. |
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Fri Aug-26-05 12:40 AM
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9. It probably scares children too. They should stop this nonsense. |
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Missing people? - shouldnt those be local stories?
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Fri Aug-26-05 01:12 AM
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12. Looks to me like they are just |
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throwing shit at the wall to see if anything sticks...
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