Notice how the media especially MSNBC is getting away from Ferguson

[bigdarryl]

Coverage and talking WAR WAR WAR look for this Jack Jacobs to be interviewed all week long he's a war hawk

[MoleyRusselsWart]

1. Its been a double edged sword

While 2 weeks of coverage is rare and certainly opened a national conversation of modern race relations between the police and the black community (and the militarization of the police), the corporate media also falsely depicted the real situation on the ground, exaggerating and exploiting the rare instances of violence (by outside agitators) for ratings, leaving the casual viewer the false impression that there were nightly "riots" and so on. That's all much of white America needs to hear to write the whole situation off, from the Brown shooting to the militarized police force terrorizing the town.

[etherealtruth]

5. Welcome to DU ... I heartily agree

[MoleyRusselsWart]

6. Thanks! Been a long time reader

[ljm2002]

11. Very true...

...the situation there has been widely represented as night after night of rioting and looting. It has the effect of handily erasing what the demonstrators are trying to communicate.

Our media (most of them anyway) ought to be ashamed. Ought to be ... but aren't, and won't be. They're too well-paid, and they love love love being invited to the "right" cocktail parties.

[pintobean]

2. The national media has left the area.

Good fucking riddance. It's a shame people don't know how incompetent and arrogant they are.

The good news is, there were no arrests last night. The shit disturbers have left, so the national media lost interest.

[cwydro]

7. Maybe

they're looking for the missing airliner again.

[pintobean]

8. Someone needs to tell them

that it landed in Antarctica.

[LloydS of New London]

12. No

You're talking CNN.

[Stellar]

3. There are other things going on in the world that are important.

I don't think a news media can/should talk about one thing 24/7 if there are other issues going on in the world that concerns us, as much as I would like to hear more about Ferguson.

[Duckhunter935]

4. Well Ferguson

is not the only news story out there. I turn the channel when the go 24/7 on one story.

[alphafemale]

9. What more would you expect?

A media swarm to report that once again today nothing much is really happening right now?

I still see daily updates, just not the saturation. And there is no call for saturation at this point.

Until the Grand jury rules ion the case, anyway.

And with its racial and gender makeup, I think we know how that is going to go.

[MoleyRusselsWart]

10. I think the OP

Was just saying that typically this is where the story "goes away".

[pintobean]

13. The violence is over. The big shots don't need to be here any more.

There's no entertainment here, so the entertainers have left. They've piled into their clown cars and they're off to find more blood and violence.