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Sat Aug-13-11 06:31 PM
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Now can the MSM please stop reporting every single time Sarah Palin farts? |
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Sat Aug-13-11 06:35 PM
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1. Now the MSM will report every Bachmann fart |
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Interchangable lunatics IMHO.
How the votes of a few thousand people merit so much attention is beyond me.
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Sat Aug-13-11 06:37 PM
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but they won't.
As long as her continual presence in the corporate media serves the purposes of their masters, we'll be getting more Grifta from Wasilla than we can possibly stand all the way up to the fucking election.
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Sat Aug-13-11 06:38 PM
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I was surprised not to see it on CNN.
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Sat Aug-13-11 09:49 PM
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8. Did he blame it on you? |
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Sat Aug-13-11 10:35 PM
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11. No, but I often blame him when my girlfriend is around. |
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When she's not, we fart at will.
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Sun Aug-14-11 11:28 AM
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13. What did Will do to deserve that ? n/t |
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Sat Aug-13-11 06:47 PM
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5. I think they were.But then she fired up the damn 'family vacation' bus again to put her face in Iowa |
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She knows she's becoming irrelevant.
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Sat Aug-13-11 07:12 PM
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6. Her 15 minutes were over on 11/5/2008. n/t |
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Sat Aug-13-11 07:56 PM
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7. Why not? DU has been obsessed with her since McCain picked her as his running mate. n/t |
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Sat Aug-13-11 09:56 PM
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10. Ah yes. General Discussion: Palin. |
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What a wild ten weeks those were.
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Sat Aug-13-11 09:50 PM
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9. Americans love stupid... |
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Edited on Sat Aug-13-11 09:53 PM by awoke_in_2003
and SP delivers. Damn, I miss Walter Cronkite
on edit- corrected Cronkite- that name is my spelling kryptonite.
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Mon Aug-15-11 10:19 AM
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17. Real news requires journalist who work hard to decipher facts about policy BUT |
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who can also prioritize the importance of these facts when reporting the News.
It is easier, reporting on celebrity takes not special knowledge, and avoids the hard work of deciphering facts and prioritizing. Entertaining is now the goal of newsrooms.
Celebrity politics requires less overhead for 'newsrooms', because it is cheaper to focus on celebrity--because celebrity is merely a matter of OPINION, not fact. Anyone in the chattering class can 'report' on their opinions regarding one candidates bid for future celebrity over another.
And most of the American public aren't interested in policy and priorities. There was a time when journalists took their use of national airways seriously, that the public trust required them to address important public issues that maybe the public wasn't that concerned about but that the public ought to hear anyway. That kind of concern for the public trust, despite the lack of public interest, required an acknowledgment of a duty to the public, but also required the courage to tell the public things that may be difficult to hear. Duty and courage are not longer journalistic principles--these kinds of principles costs money to take seriously. Advertising shareholders are looking for 'newsrooms' to be more efficient.
Serving the interst of marketeers and advertisers has superseded the old school journalist's call to duty and courage in the name of the public trust. The interest of the super-wealthy are better served if the people are focused on celebrities, especially when those celebrities are also tell the public what these corporate interests want to hear.
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Sun Aug-14-11 10:45 PM
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14. Someone throw water on her already |
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I am so f**king sick of her..does'nt she have a moose to shoot or bear to chase? Maybe she can raise another one of her daughters babies..I think I know where the retard gene came from.
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Mon Aug-15-11 07:25 AM
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a group of people who covered Casey Anthony like it was 9/11 and the Iraq War. Don't hold your breath.
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Mon Aug-15-11 04:40 PM
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18. and breathlessly gave 24hour coverage of John Mark Carr |
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