This is HILARIOUS

[nadinbrzezinski]

There were elections in Spain. Aznar is OUT... and what is FOX covering? The usual junk... and soft news.

What there were elections? You kid me? What another national leader HAS LOST his post due to his participation in a war against the will of the people? That is NOT news... so what about the Passion? Hey, what about those wonderful stories about divas and the Miami Police? Yep more distraction, you see.

CNN, to their credit, are covering the elections in Headline News, but in their regular program, why cover them? MSNBC, why go on a break from National Geographic Special?

Oh never mind me... right at the moment I am laughing at the Media... all of it, even if Headline News is doing some of what needs to be done.

oh and at the top of the hour Fox is actually covering the elections... ok lets watch this for a sec.... and see if the talking points are out.

Yep they are... talking points are out.

Major upset (really?)

Bombing changed the balance of power...

Anger at the government because they were a strong ally in spite of the popular feeling (forgot to mention that those were 90%) of the population

[imax2268]

1. It's Sunday night...trivial crap until Monday....

you can pretty much bet that they will be talking about it tomorrow...but then again we are talking about Faux News...
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. That is why I went and checked all of them

and they are also waiting for the talkling points, though the early ones are out now...

Including the usual crap about socialists...

I am willing to bet a virtaul dollar that Democracy will not enter the equation... and I mean a working democracy.

Oh and talkng points on Kerry are OUT and boy what can I say? Pass the vomit bucket, will ya

[elperromagico]

3. The media makes stories and kills stories at its discretion.

Remember the child kidnapping "epidemic" from last year? No more children were kidnapped during that period than in any other comparable period. Or look further back at the 2000 election, when Gore's "lies" were given full scrutiny, while Bush's constant lies about his tax cut plan were hardly touched upon at all.

The media turned Janet Jackson's brief flash of tit into a "crisis" of mammoth proportions, as The Daily Show with Jon Stewart duly demonstrated with its post-Super Bowl montage. As has been pointed out before, many people didn't even know the flash had happened until the news networks started talking about it constantly.

Now it's Kobe, Jacko, Martha, and Scott Peterson. Neither the Kobe case nor the Michael Jackson case has officially gone to trial, so all we have is the speculation of idiot talking heads. The Martha Stewart trial is essentially over, but we still hear about it every day like it's important. And I've never understood the coverage of the Peterson case, which is essentially a local story of no importance to most Americans.

The media makes these things important by pointing at them constantly and shouting, "Look how important this story is!" and makes things like WMD in Iraq and these elections in Spain unimportant by simply ignoring them.