Imagine if we lived in a country where a real discussion of health care could get the coverage

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the Jackson Memorial got. We live in a country where tens of millions of people are totally without health insurance and where the leading cause of bankrupcy is illness, yet the sun would burn out before all the networks would give even an hour of coverage to such a discussion. I have no real beef with Jackson. I admit I am likely to go to a website and watch some of the service but I think our society would be much better if we had a hour special on health care instead.

[jobycom]

1. Who would want to? At least Jackson had a soundtrack.

I'd be bored to tears if the media talked about health care this much.

[sandnsea]

2. Like the ABC town hall

and the Youtube online town hall, and a bunch of other televised events over the last 6 months that caused half of DU say Obama was too much of a celebrity. You mean those?

http://www.obama-mamas.com/blog/?cat=23

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3. not on all networks at the same time which is a huge difference

the networks job is to inform us not just entertain us.

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. The ABC town hall was a joke.

All of their selected speakers in the crowd were industry shills, as was Chuckles Gibson. Single payer was never discussed at all, and the "public option" was framed in the most negative manner possible.

[sandnsea]

8. Exactly. If it isn't what YOU think it should be

then nothing happened. Arrogant selfish assholes, DU is full of them.

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. How exactly is it "arrogant" or "selfish" to want REAL goddamn health care reform in this country?

Or for that matter, a REAL discussion, where the complete truth is told?

No, the arrogant and selfish ones are those who wouldn't THINK of harming a greedy assed soulless corporation, as long as the taxpayers keep paying for THEIR health care.

I.e. every last fake "Democrat" in Congress.

[Sebastian Doyle]

4. Now this is what I was trying to say in my thread.

Instead I get accused of hating a dead singer, which isn't even remotely true.

Sucks that he died, but it sucks even more that millions wouldn't even have the access to the extraordinary attempts that were made to save his life.

And that the corporatists who are destroying this country are the true beneficiaries of Michaelpalooza, because it lets their behind the curtains backstabbing of any honest attempt at health care reform go completely unnoticed.

[Ron Green]

6. Television isn't interested in anything you're looking for.

Television is interested only in slavery and addiction.

[Berry Cool]

7. Well, you know when my mother died, I really thought it should have had blanket media coverage

on all the networks for days and days, because it sure was the most important thing in MY world.

Instead, the news channels kept blathering on and on this unimportant stuff about how the Supreme Court had stopped the Florida recount, and as a result, the next president of the United States would be George W. Bush.

At the time, I really did not give a shit if a monkey smoking a cigar became our next president*. But that's what I kept hearing about anyway.

Oh well. Just goes to show, the TV doesn't always provide us with blanket coverage of what we wish it would provide us blanket coverage of.

*Did Georgie ever smoke cigars? I don't know.