3/7/07
I want to speak about something that has been irking me lately. The amount of coverage Anna Nicole Smith's death has been getting in the main stream media ever since it occured - which happened to be a month ago tomorrow - has been nothing short of obscene. When the "news" first broke, CNN went into a special report that lasted 90 minutes without commercial interruption. And it's only gotten worse from there.
ThinkProgress.org did a study of the three largest cable "news" networks (make sure you watch the video on that link - you won't know whether to laugh or cry or strangle the nearest passerby, or possibly do all three at once) - FNC, CNN, and MSNBC - last Friday. They counted the number of times Anna Nicole Smith was mentioned versus the number of times Walter Reed Hospital - a story much newer and infinitely more important - was mentioned. The results were absolutely ridiculous.
FNC mentioned Anna 121 times, as opposed to 10 - 10! - mentions of the embarrasment that is the disgusting Walter Reed situation. But they are a right-wing media mouthpiece, so what about CNN and MSNBC?
Well, comparitively, they were much better, but both networks were ludicrously giving the two stories roughly equal pay. Again, this was almost a month after Ms. Smith's passing, while the other story in question had just broken and was about the horrific treatment our WOUNDED VETERANS are getting AT HOME.
Of course, this is just the latest in a long, long series of so called "events" that cable "news" outlets have been hammering us with ever since the OJ Simpson car chase almost 10 years ago. The list has included things like the OJ trial, the aftermath of the OJ trial, the Joan Benet Ramsey case, Anna Nicole Smith's court case over her dead husband's estate, the Michael Jackson trials, the Natalie Hallowell affair, Kobe Bryant's rape trial, Michael Jackson dangling a kid over a railing, Martha Stewart's insider trading trial, the Joan Benet Ramsey case, again, Britney Spears shaving her head, etc., etc., etc. All of this crap, absolutely none of which affected any everyday American in any way whatsoever, all of it treated by various "news" outlets like the Marshans just landed.
Our wounded troops are being treated like shit here at home, while under US Army care, at a US Army medical facility? Who cares? That big-titted lady who died last month is getting buried today! Who spoke at the funeral? What did they say? THAT is what passes for "news" to these people.
To any news anchor who may be reading this - if you willingly did a story on Anna Nicole Smith this month, do the world a favor and resign. Go work for US Weekly or some shit. Leave the news to people who, well, care about the news. Oh, and Rita Cosby - just go ahead and kill yourself; you're wasting our oxygen.
And to all of you Fox News viewers out there - you can talk all you want to about "supporting the troops", but if you continue to watch FNC after reading this, you don't support the troops. Simple as that. Someone who truly does so would be so upset about their news station skipping over the troops' mistreatment for this tabloid story they would never watch that channel again.
Rant over. Personal blog tomorrow. Till then...
I want to speak about something that has been irking me lately. The amount of coverage Anna Nicole Smith's death has been getting in the main stream media ever since it occured - which happened to be a month ago tomorrow - has been nothing short of obscene. When the "news" first broke, CNN went into a special report that lasted 90 minutes without commercial interruption. And it's only gotten worse from there.
ThinkProgress.org did a study of the three largest cable "news" networks (make sure you watch the video on that link - you won't know whether to laugh or cry or strangle the nearest passerby, or possibly do all three at once) - FNC, CNN, and MSNBC - last Friday. They counted the number of times Anna Nicole Smith was mentioned versus the number of times Walter Reed Hospital - a story much newer and infinitely more important - was mentioned. The results were absolutely ridiculous.
FNC mentioned Anna 121 times, as opposed to 10 - 10! - mentions of the embarrasment that is the disgusting Walter Reed situation. But they are a right-wing media mouthpiece, so what about CNN and MSNBC?
Well, comparitively, they were much better, but both networks were ludicrously giving the two stories roughly equal pay. Again, this was almost a month after Ms. Smith's passing, while the other story in question had just broken and was about the horrific treatment our WOUNDED VETERANS are getting AT HOME.
Of course, this is just the latest in a long, long series of so called "events" that cable "news" outlets have been hammering us with ever since the OJ Simpson car chase almost 10 years ago. The list has included things like the OJ trial, the aftermath of the OJ trial, the Joan Benet Ramsey case, Anna Nicole Smith's court case over her dead husband's estate, the Michael Jackson trials, the Natalie Hallowell affair, Kobe Bryant's rape trial, Michael Jackson dangling a kid over a railing, Martha Stewart's insider trading trial, the Joan Benet Ramsey case, again, Britney Spears shaving her head, etc., etc., etc. All of this crap, absolutely none of which affected any everyday American in any way whatsoever, all of it treated by various "news" outlets like the Marshans just landed.
Our wounded troops are being treated like shit here at home, while under US Army care, at a US Army medical facility? Who cares? That big-titted lady who died last month is getting buried today! Who spoke at the funeral? What did they say? THAT is what passes for "news" to these people.
To any news anchor who may be reading this - if you willingly did a story on Anna Nicole Smith this month, do the world a favor and resign. Go work for US Weekly or some shit. Leave the news to people who, well, care about the news. Oh, and Rita Cosby - just go ahead and kill yourself; you're wasting our oxygen.
And to all of you Fox News viewers out there - you can talk all you want to about "supporting the troops", but if you continue to watch FNC after reading this, you don't support the troops. Simple as that. Someone who truly does so would be so upset about their news station skipping over the troops' mistreatment for this tabloid story they would never watch that channel again.
Rant over. Personal blog tomorrow. Till then...
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