Sunday, May 15, 2005
On some level, who wouldn't rather see more about the running bride?
For all the conservative complaining about how the good news out of Iraq gets short shrift, it's nice to see someone in the press acknowledge -- even if only in the fine print -- that the bad news there deserves a lot more ink than it gets:
In a market, sometimes you get only the news you want.
Brides gotta run, planes gotta stray, and cable news networks gotta find a way to fill a lot of programming hours as cheaply as possible.... We say with all the genuine apolitical and non-partisan human concern that we can muster that the death and carnage in Iraq is truly staggering. And/but we are sort of resigned to the Notion that it simply isn't going to break through to American news organizations, or, for the most part, Americans.... What is hands down the biggest story every day in the world will get almost no coverage.ABC News' The Note, via Sirotablog and Brad DeLong.
In a market, sometimes you get only the news you want.
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And their stated reason for the lack of coverage?
"Democrats are so thoroughly spooked by John Kerry's loss —- and Republicans so inspired by their stay-the-course Commander in Chief —- that what is hands down the biggest story every day in the world will get almost no coverage. No conflict at home = no coverage."
Makes it sound like everybody knows that the bad guys continue to murder, but half of us don't consider that a reason to pull out, and half are too cowed to keep saying it IS a reason to pull out, and so the coverage would sell no papers. Anyway, this works out for the best, as the ongoing story of Iraq would fill entire news cycles, pre-empting important stories about Korans and toilets.
(Nice blog. Needs more entries, though.)
"Democrats are so thoroughly spooked by John Kerry's loss —- and Republicans so inspired by their stay-the-course Commander in Chief —- that what is hands down the biggest story every day in the world will get almost no coverage. No conflict at home = no coverage."
Makes it sound like everybody knows that the bad guys continue to murder, but half of us don't consider that a reason to pull out, and half are too cowed to keep saying it IS a reason to pull out, and so the coverage would sell no papers. Anyway, this works out for the best, as the ongoing story of Iraq would fill entire news cycles, pre-empting important stories about Korans and toilets.
(Nice blog. Needs more entries, though.)
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: 9:47 PM
It's pretty sad when the major news organizations tell you that their reporting is driven by the back-and-forth of partisan politics.
Well, if CBS, Rather, Newsweek, and the NYT represent the "back", when do we get to see the "forth"?
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