Tune In, Turn On and Decide

[papau]

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-maher30jul30.story

Tune In, Turn On and Decide
By Bill Maher
Bill Maher is host of HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher."

July 30, 2004

Political conventions are important, and they deserve to be broadcast and viewed in their entirety. You can't call everyone in Washington morons if you don't know exactly what it is that makes them morons.

The conventional wisdom is that conventions nowadays are beneath our attention because they're so "produced" and there's no drama. So what? We're picking the president, not the last comic standing. It's not a reality show; if it were, they would have voted Al Sharpton off the first night.

The media treat these conventions as if they're pointless interruptions of their real job, which is covering the Scott Peterson trial. No drama, no excitement.

Hey, you know what's exciting? It's exciting when politicians get drunk with power because people aren't keeping an eye on them. That's when the high jinks really begin: Who expected we'd invade Iraq because of 9/11? Unpredictable, whoo!<snip>

[Warpy]

1. Right, the networks got spanked

and lost viewers to cable and PBS because of their lack of coverage.

They're now in a lose-lose situation (a win/win for us) wherein any increase of coverage of the RNC will be seen as blatant bias, and keeping the reduced coverage will allow those of us with weak stonachs to avoid it, while again reducing their ratings.

That the agitaion is starting now indicates that the right is indeed asking for blatant bias and increased coverage of their own coronati.. er convention. My guess is that they may get it, too.

[papau]

2. I doubt the US Media worries about showing blatant bias in favor of GOP

:-(

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