The Sharon - McCloy Life and Death watch ....

[Ron Green]

is the reason people aren't hearing about things that affect our lives very much, although Israel beyond Sharon is worth thinking about. My point is that it doesn't matter who's living or dying, as long as CNN (and network radio headlines, too) can run it non-stop as "breaking news" instead of examining, for example, how Bush's latest photo-op was just that, or digging more deeply into the FACT that the Abramoff scandal is purely a Republican one.

Does anyone else sense that the editorial decisions are so carefully crafted that Bush's egregious behavior is protected from the news, while allowing him to continue posing? To me it seems very carefully orchestrated.
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"When news breaks . . . . we'll fix it."

[murray hill farm]

1. Lets see as much heartbreak and tears...

for the thousands and thousands of dead and injured who have..and continue to face worse in Iraq every day....could i see just one hour of coverage for those who have died...and the heartbreak each of their families suffers ever day...could we see the funerals and hear of their suffering...but no...one month coverage for those who die in a natural disaster or a mine accident....every little detail and more and more and more...it makes me sick.

[Ron Green]

2. I agree... it seems completely upside-down.

The thousands of deaths that you describe are a result of a choice to go to an unnecessary war, while those who died in the mine were there to make their living, protected very marginally by their bosses.

The way all of these stories are spun for TV is just as much political propaganda as was in Germany of 1936.