I know CNN...etc are showing a car chase... but have they MENTIONED

[HEyHEY]

The DSM hearing at all? I can't monitor it as I'm not near a TV... anyone?

[Bluebear]

1. Currently interviewing a Conservative Christian about religion & politics

:crazy:

[getmeouttahere]

3. Ah yes, another diversion...

I swear, they start little pathetic fires everywhere to try to distract us....how many headlines do we see everyday that you just shake your head and can't believe it's happening again

[RandomKoolzip]

2. My wife watches the Nighly News every night...

and reads the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times everyday, and she'd never heard of the DSM until I brought it up over breakfast yesterday.

CNN won't touch it no matter how loud we scream.

[nickinSTL]

4. actually, there is a link on the cnn homepage

to a story on the DSM. Typical pro-administration story, IMO, though.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/16/downingst.memo.ap/index.html

There is also a link to the live hearing, though.

[babylonsister]

5. CNN also did a pretty decent story about DSM

yesterday by Bill Schneider, aired on Inside Politics and Lou Dobbs.

[WhollyHeretic]

6. Anything but the hearing

Faux News is showing taped parts of the car chase, TAPED. It's a car driving down the freakin' highway. :banghead:

[faithnotgreed]

9. glad youre here green j

[Halliburton]

7. They have a link to their live feed of it on the frontpage of their site..

And they have a link to an AP story about DSM also on the frontpage. I don't think they covered it on TV.

On their cable network, they were covering a stupid car chase. Afterall, there is a reason there ratings have gone down 40 percent in the last year. It's crap like this.

[Wright Patman]

8. When the Powers That Be

want to take someone down, here is what happens:

All networks break in to broadcast these types of hearings and so there is no relief for soap opera addicts. That's what happened during Watergate.

You saw North Carolina U.S. Sen. Sam ("I'm jest an ol' country lawyer) Ervin's ugly mug on TV constantly presiding over the investigation. PBS rebroadcast the hearings in their entirety at night for those who were at work during the day.

Yep, looking back on it, there is no doubt that a marching order was given by the intelligence agencies (for whom Bob Woodward has never ceased to work, IMHO) to the major media to take Nixon down even though he had just been reelected in a landslide of historic proportions.

Another difference was that both houses were solidly in control of the Democrats. But they would have been able to go nowhere without the megaphones of the major networks blaring that Nixon had to go 24/7 for more than a year.