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CNN Calls Attention To It's Own Failure To Report News
Posted by Pile
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 It's a shame we don't have a "cluelessness" category for this story, but one has to chuckle when CNN runs a story entitled, "Michael Jackson, Does anyone care?"
Ironically, CNN like all mainstream media, refuses to recognize that it's not Michael Jackson people don't care about, but the now-marginalized mainstream media, which still can't seem to figure out what is and isn't worthy of being reported. |
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"This turned out to be a story that didn't even have enough traction to compete with the runaway bride, which blew Michael Jackson off the screen for a week and a half," said Thompson, head of Syracuse University's Center for the Study of Popular Television.
*barf*
It's nice to know academia is pursuing important intellectual milestones. I think I'll transfer to Syracuse University and finish my dissertation on "I Dream Of Jeannie." |
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Wow...
Posted by Master Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi on 2005-06-09 16:07:04 | | Wow... thats all I have to say... wow... |
Inmates running the asylum
Posted by Tiredofitall on 2005-06-09 17:06:02 | | It's no wonder it's a crazy, wall-bouncing, ideologically schizophrenic world when we have the inmates running the asylum. Sane people, who just want to live their lives normally, get caught in the middle of all the crazies conniption fits. Look, all most people want is to just live life without having to worry about the loonies trying to convert them. That's why we need to use our minds to decipher all the crazy bullshit that's out there. |
| Posted by Albert on 2005-06-19 02:36:37 | Idealogically Schizophrenic.. that's a great way of putting it.
I think people are so confused and insecure about whether or not the way they're living their own lives is worthwhile, they revile in any scenario which shows someone more dysfunctional than themselves, which seems to be the flavor-of-the-day that the media loves to cater to. It's sad and pathetic, but someone is watching that crap.
I for one didn't pay much attention to the trial. Yea, it was entertaining from what I saw, but you didn't need x weeks of the coverage. Once it was acknowledged that Jackson liked to sleep with boys, you kinda knew what his fetish was. The defense exposed the shallow nature of the money-grubbing defendents, who are the real criminals for exposing their children to such a situation in the first place, so it doesn't bother me that Jackson was acquitted. It's more disturbing that there are people out there that whore their children out like that.
I'm not suggesting that Jackson doesn't have things for which he should be punished for, but you know he must have been abused when he was a child as well. Lots of baggage. It's not like he's a classic sexual predator with his fame. Anyone who hangs with him is aware of the situation, so it's different. It's the parents who should have been on trial. |
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