Does the Kerik story provide lessons for attracting MSM attention?

[wildflower]

Many here, including me, have noticed that the Kerik story keeps being covered...and covered...and covered.

I agree that one reason for the coverage is that the story involves the RW perception of morals, which is anything that involves sex.

It's also a 'people' story rather than a 'thing' story, and people like to gossip. Who's fighting with whom, who's having affairs, getting divorced, etc.

Are there any other elements you think have made Kerik a continuing story?

And can any of these be used to attract MSM attention to things such as, oh, I don't know, elections? :)

-wildflower

[The Straight Story]

1. We can get more coverage of voting problems by

Attaching some sex to it "Diebold worker had mistress who helped him with vote fraud, dumped her after election" and so on....

[KurtNYC]

2. Someone said once "The media is like a tiger that

comes to your door every morning,
and the day you don't have something to feed it - it eats YOU.

Meaning that the media loves a story that develops over a period of time and that they love a fight so whoever stops fighting first loses.

[intelle]

3. How about

Keith Olbermann is the sexiest journalist on MSM today. He has been covering election 2004 fraud since the election. Is there a connection between sexiness in a journalist, and what he or she chooses to cover?

We report, you decide.

:loveya:

[lancdem]

4. That's a good question.

It also helps that the nanny excuse was a fraud, which whetted the media's appetite even more. The sex angle is a boon, as are the corruption and mob angles.

[sandnsea]

5. Who does the story benefit

And who has enough clout to keep it in the media. For the most part, I don't believe any of this stuff happens by accident anymore. It's meant to destroy more than Kerik. I would bet somebody who doesn't want Giulianni to run or wants to have a memorable enough scandal to at least smear him with in 2008. Karl Rove and Condi Rice?

[Hamoth]

6. We need to catch blackwell beating off or something.

They need sex to sell a story. We need sex to involve itself with the voting scandle. lol

[unpossibles]

7. if it were not so cold outside....

I'd say let's take to the streets and F**k for Freedom. But that would not sell in the heartland, would it?

hehehe

[wildflower]

8. LOL! These are all some interesting ideas. :)

When I heard the Kerik story still going on yesterday, I was thinking it was starting to remind me of the Lewinsky thing.

It's also like a continually unfolding mystery...you never know what new thing you're going to uncover next as you keep digging. But so is the election fraud, which leads me back to my additional people vs. things hypothesis.

[Griffy]

13. BE IN DC on january 6th ...we will keep you warm! nt

[RaulVB]

9. The Kerik "saga" was planted on the MSM by the Republicans (n/t)

[lancdem]

10. To hurt Giuliani?

Is that the motive? :shrug:

[RaulVB]

11. Yes, is an internal "power struggle."

Is very fitting with the works of a dictatorship or a fascist regime's dynamics.

[Griffy]

12. Doctor a photo of Blackwell with a prostitute... !

sex sells...

[whometense]

14. What I'm finding really interesting

is the way the story is not only still alive a week later, but also seems to be spreading to Gonzalez. It's weird - like there's a breach in the wall that makes media questions somehow ok now, when they weren't ok a week ago??

I'll never understand it. But I like it.

[wildflower]

15. Well there's also the idea that the media takes the gloves off...

in a president's second term. I remember Janeane mentioning this a while back, and I wondered whether or not it would happen in this case.

[RaulVB]

16. True, that was the "old tradition..."

But this is a new and very different reality.