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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMassive riots in Egypt, a terrible tragedy in Arizona and nothing on Cable news.
CNN, Faux, (GE)MSNBC are all showing crime dramas or reality programming. What a joke. BBC World Service has been covering it.
The Straight Story
(48,121 posts)Just not enough time between them all to cover such things when there are celebrities they have to cover too.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)I have no TV, but I read a lot, including on-line, and I don't feel like I miss a great deal.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,868 posts)However a lot of people do. There was just a press conference that I would have liked to have seen. I'm sure they'll get to it after they talk about what Kanye West named his kid.
SheilaT
(23,156 posts)with any sort of regular news.
I wind up missing certain information that way, however. It was at least a year after Michael Jackson died that I learned the networks had all gone to wall to wall coverage of his death that day. I was truly horrified when I learned that. With all due respect, Michael Jackson did not deserve that kind of coverage.
I think it's just a whole lot easier, and cheaper, to do what they're currently doing. and it's why our national debate invariably gets sucked up into something trivial (Edward Snowden is a hero! No, he's a traiter!) rather than the actual issues involved in so many things.
Crabby Appleton
(5,231 posts)right now a live report 1:00am, 7:00am Egyption time.
ForgoTheConsequence
(4,868 posts)But they do a very good job. I've been watching Al Jazeera for Egypt coverage.