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News Watch: Bombs vs Bombshells
Don't normally get into politics here on the Jointblog but I found a good observation while blog reading of what constitutes media network "news" nowadays.
According to Arianna Huffington's Huffington Post blog article tonight:
"It says everything you need to know about the current state of TV news that on a day that saw Iraq moving closer to all-out civil war, with at least 76 Iraqis killed and 179 wounded in sectarian attacks, the CBS Evening News devoted one minute and thirty-nine seconds to coverage of Iraq... and one minute and fifty-six seconds to coverage of Anna Nicole Smith's appearance in front of the Supreme Court. Of course, the Mrs. Smith Goes to Washington story came with all that irresistible B-roll of Anna Nicole jiggling her way through a pack of jostling paparazzi into the High Court. Hard for civil war to top that."
Said CBS Evening News anchorman Bob Schieffer introing the story: "The US Supreme Court is one of the great judicial bodies that the world has known..." I guess they just needed to see one of the world's most talked about body of mass intoxication jiggling in front of them (okay, her boobs) instead of hearing any evidence explaining the conflict creating so many dead bodies from a lack of weapons of mass destruction (huh, what bombs?).
Good night and good luck...
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posted by Unknown @ Thursday, March 02, 2006,
