When a United States Senator is busted for not only trying to solicit sex in a bathroom, but for also covering up the fact that he pled guilty to the crime, that's big news. It doesn't really have anything to do with the fact that he is Republican who preaches anti-gay rhetoric. That's beside the point. It could have been Joe Biden caught banging some Catholic schoolgirl. Point is, it's major news.
I like flipping through the major news channels during the day. CNN, MSNBC, and FOX all have very different ways of portraying the news. Case in point:
Today, I was watching the press conference with the Senator Craig. MSNBC and CNN were covering it live and then had commentary afterwards. Cuz, y'know, it's a big story. I flip over to FOX, just to see how they are covering it, and I swear to god, this is what I saw (I even wrote it down because I was so dumbfounded):
"Is Katie Couric Really America's Sweetheart?": they then interviewed some author of a book claiming that Couric "slept her way to the top"
"Healing Owen": In which the FOX host speculated that Owen Wilson was strung out on drugs and interviewed some psychologist dude about how a guy who "has everything in the world: fame, women, tons of money" could possibly be depressed.
"Fight in a courtroom!": in which FOX showed a mother screaming and having to be held back at the trial of a guy who murdered her son. There wasn't even a "fight". It was a bunch of people holding her back.
Remember, these were the stories FOX was running while the Senator news was breaking.
Are you kidding me? People who get their news from this station are brain dead. Seriously. You can claim CNN is liberal, but at least when a major news story breaks, they don't run stories mocking Owen Wilson's suicide attempt. It isn't surprising though. FOX hates Hollywood and CBS and enjoys pumping their sheep with stupid "news" like "Fight in a courtroom!"
I mean, c'mon...
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Isn't it probable that you just didn't happen to see coverage during the time you were watching the channel? For what it's worth, all the right-wing talk radio guys I listened to yesterday were saying the dude should resign right away, and were even cracking jokes at his expense. So we're not circling the wagons around him.
You and I have both lamented the 24/7 news cycle, the way that the cable news channels have to repeat and recycle the same suff over and over just to fill their 24/7 clock.
Honestly, is a senator trolling for gay sex in an airport bathroom really a big news story? Why do you think so? It's like on the level of a Paris Hilton story, only featuring a politician instead of a trampy heiress.
It is a big story because of his recorded anti gay voting record.
we watch MSNBC over lunch and about 2 times a week they will have "breaking news" and it is some person trapped because a construction hole being dug caves in, or a plane crashed but the people walked away, or a moose is in a pool.
Not exactly anything I care about, nor is it national news that needs constant coverage 20 times an hour.
We have started listening to democracy now on KZUM or watching cartoons more often than watch the news.
Oh well.
I'm sorry, I think a United State's Senator, someone who makes decisions that affect citizens every day is a tad bit different than what Paris Hilton is doing.
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