A tale of two cases

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Today CEO Skilling of Enron finished his testimony. I was up in Cleveland for Easter and the week following and got to see the coverage of that case and the Duke Rape case. The Duke rape case was on page A1 for three of the days I was up there. By comparision the Enron case was on page c7 for all five days. C is the business section of the Plain Dealer. To my knowledge there isn't a single Ohioan anyway involved in the Duke case but the State Teachers retirement fund lost tens of millions of dollars thanks to Skilling. By any reasonable standard Skilling should have been in our front section and the Duke case should have been no where to be found in that paper.

This isn't a comment on the merits of either side of the Duke case. It is instead a comment on what is important and what the media pretends is important.

[Horse with no Name]

1. The media of this country is nothing but propaganda masters

for this regime. The media is directly responsible for the sheeple not being in the streets marching to Washington.
If the truth were out there to be found easily (in other words, if the corruption of this regime was covered in the same slick manner as Clinton's blowjob)there would be never ending outrage.
The problem is, the truth is VERY hard to find and most don't look for it.

[Neil Lisst]

2. The Media are bartenders serving drinks with little umbrellas ...

... or flaming shots to their consumers of same.

There are a number of "news" stories that draw heavy interest with women, and those stories include the ones about rape, incest, missing female, that get so much news time. They're big with the female demo.

Men are more oriented to business, sports, and world events. Of course, the Duke case crosses lines, and it includes the fear many men have of being falsely accused of rape, and wondering how in the world you prove you're innocent.

[Vetinarii]

3. Remember, "news" has a very short shelf-life

"News", in any media outlet, is content that is new: it couldn't have appeared yesterday or tomorrow, it can only be news for a very brief time.

The Duke rape story is still relatively new. The story is still being built in outline, not just in detail. Enron, by contrast, is ancient - everyone already knows the basics of the story, the only people who still care are a few legal/accountancy wonks who want to hear the detail.

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4. I care

He cost people millions of dollars and should be jailed for a long time.