marylanddem
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Fri Jul-25-08 08:49 AM
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Is there a media blackout on today's impeachment hearing? |
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I haven't watched the tube yet but nothing on CNN or MSNBC websites - are we that far gone?
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Fri Jul-25-08 08:51 AM
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1. Yes there is and yes we are |
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What makes it so damned frustrating is that I can easily the Democratic "leadership" as having ordered the lack of media interest.
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Fri Jul-25-08 08:51 AM
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2. I wonder if anybody other than DUers know that it's going on. |
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Fri Jul-25-08 08:53 AM
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4. Feels like we're living in an alternative universe... |
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I woke up praying that there would not be this blackout - that this would surely be the news of the day - but of course we are holding onto our democracy by the most slender of threads...
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Fri Jul-25-08 08:51 AM
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3. I have heard it mentioned on the hourly news updates on ABC radio. |
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Fri Jul-25-08 08:55 AM
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Fri Jul-25-08 08:56 AM
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6. Where are these people? |
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It's increasingly clear that the media is the third leg in the fascist state, but it's still hard to realze that they're not honest brokers! Like Charlie Brown and the football, we keep expecting that they'll not pull away, and then when they do, we're knocked on our collective asses!
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Fri Jul-25-08 09:00 AM
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In another life I was a newspaper reporter - went to journalism school in the Watergate era - it is a sickening spectacle indeed...
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Fri Jul-25-08 08:57 AM
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7. The right news for the right audience. |
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Most of the population won't hear a peep.
But those Democrats that question their party's commitment to the Constitution will find ample ways of seeing this dog-and-pony show.
Ahh, the wonders of modern media control...
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Fri Jul-25-08 09:03 AM
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9. It's starting on CSPAN1 now |
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The hearings are being televised by CSPAN 1.
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Fri Jul-25-08 09:12 AM
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10. How will it impact anyones life? |
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Fri Jul-25-08 09:26 AM
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11. Curiously, most media never reports on hearings... |
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unless they are really, really interesting or significant to a lot of people.
(And look like they have a snowball's chance in hell of accomplishing something.)
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