Bruzilla's wrong...

[cwo_ghwebb]

IMHO, none are really 'news' casts anymore. The whole bs about Burma (or whatever the junta wants to call themselves this week) is just a shame. Close to a million dead and NOBODY wants to throw the BS flag up. I guess Americans just don't want anyone to interrupt the drama of the Obama/Shillary debate at the moment.

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

IMHO, none are really 'news' casts anymore. The whole bs about Burma (or whatever the junta wants to call themselves this week) is just a shame. Close to a million dead and NOBODY wants to throw the BS flag up. I guess Americans just don't want anyone to interrupt the drama of the Obama/Shillary debate at the moment.

That doesn't surprise me one bit.

International news events never get the coverage they should. Hell, the day of the London bombings, FOX News was back to covering Natalee Holloway in no time. Madrid? Tsunami? Cable news was silent on those for days.

It's American media at it's finest.

Originally Posted by cwo_ghwebb

IMHO, none are really 'news' casts anymore. The whole bs about Burma (or whatever the junta wants to call themselves this week) is just a shame. Close to a million dead and NOBODY wants to throw the BS flag up. I guess Americans just don't want anyone to interrupt the drama of the Obama/Shillary debate at the moment.

What would you have them report on from Burma? There's not much to report on that hasn't been reorted already. A lot of folks are dead and the government refuses to allow help in. How many times can you re-air that? Until the relief workers get in and you start to see their impact, I don't see there being much to report.

Originally Posted by AndyMarquisLIVE

That doesn't surprise me one bit.

International news events never get the coverage they should. Hell, the day of the London bombings, FOX News was back to covering Natalee Holloway in no time. Madrid? Tsunami? Cable news was silent on those for days.

It's American media at it's finest.

My problem with the 24-hour networks is the opposite of yours. I hate it when they try to broadcast 24-hours a day on a story with no content. Take the London bombings as a perfect example. Bombs go off in London. That's all anybody knows for sure and it makes up about a four-minute segment. What do you do with the other 40 or so minutes in the broadcast hour? Well, you start shoving microphones into anyone who claims to have seen "something"'s face and start grilling them. Then you start hounding the police for answers to questions they can't possibly answer because they don't know anything yet. Then you go out and round up all your pundits, who know nothing more than the cops and the authorities, but who are free to speculate all they like because they're not accountable for anything. Then you go and get reactions of people to all the BS speculation being made by the pundits who don't know the facts. Lastly, you switch back to the US and start whipping up worry that the same thing is going to happen here.

Now let me ask you... is that news worth hearing? I mean it gets the Natalee Holloway story off the air, but what value is it as news? It fills up the hour, but fills it with BS that likely has nothing to do with the actual facts of the matter. We saw this with the DC sniper shootings, 9/11, Madrid, PFC Lynch, and on and on.