Media to cover the Saturday protests? Not now. Charlie Sheen comes first!

[truedelphi]

If you have turned your TV on in the last eighteen hours, you now know that Charlie Sheen was interviewed by Alex Jones. He told Alex his boss, Chuck Lorrie, is not someone he likes and regrettably, Sheen went on to call Mr Lorrie a "maggot jew."

Charlie has been fired. "Two and A Half Men" has been canceled. In a normal society, this would be big news, like on page fifteen.

But here in Corporate Controlled USA, this story is number one. Unless O.J. escapes from jail and starts killing people, this is what we will hear over the weekend.

Will reports on demonstrators out to protest tomorrow in many of the state capitals be mentioned on network news? I doubt it.

Slight digression: Way back in January of 1994, the people of Chiapas, Mexico began an uprising.

News anchors from every major news outlet in the States went down to talk to the people, interview the leaders, and visit their homes. This started on a Monday. By Thursday, several channels were showing us in America that the people in the Chiapas were so poor they shared their one mug and one plate in order to feed themselves in their one room, mud floor huts. Entire families lived this way.

A full one hour report was promised on at least one network.

At noon of the Friday when the report was to be made, Tonya Harding had one of her henchmen
smack Nancy on the knee. This news story actually interrupted normal TV shows. The news coverage carried it as the new "Number One Story."

The Chiapas was not mentioned on TV for at least two weeks. And then only in a very off hand manner.

It took me years to hunt down what had happened. And then one day, Rolling Stone had an article about how much control our Big Banks have over the media. The article mentioned in passing that Citibank had put the word out that no news people from the Big News Agencies should continue with the Chiapas story.

And none did.

[leftstreet]

1. Programs like that are powerfully important to the patriarchy

Entitled white male - treats women as objects for his consumption, etc, etc, etc

Oddly enough, it's big news

[BOG PERSON]

3. it's always been a pretty mean-spirited, misogynistic show

that has to reflect something about its creator, chuck lorre. also it probably reflects something about US gender relations that this show was such a massive hit.

[Skidmore]

2. Wonder how that program's employees feel about being put out

of work by this self-absorbed goober. Now that would be a story of relevance.

[Initech]

4. The media (now a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industrie) is just trying to keep us distracted.

[BOG PERSON]

5. yes, hollywood is to blame

we'd all be reading philosophy and writing our congressmen if it weren't for hollywood.

[Initech]

8. That was supposed to be sarcastic.

[truedelphi]

11. T-R-O-L-L-S Are not able to discern

Sarcasm!

[truedelphi]

7. So initech

:hi: and a :hug:

[BOG PERSON]

6. now if only somebody could provoke the star(s) of big bang theory

into saying something insane or anti-semitic, the prime-time landscape would improve drastically (along with my empty personal life)

[truedelphi]

9. You seem to be msising the reason for my OP -

Which might be clearer if you read "below the fold"

Slight digression: Way back in January of 1994, the people of Chiapas, Mexico began an uprising.

News anchors from every major news outlet in the States went down to talk to the people, interview the leaders, and visit their homes. This started on a Monday. By Thursday, several channels were showing us in America that the people in the Chiapas were so poor they shared their one mug and one plate in order to feed themselves in their one room, mud floor huts. Entire families lived this way.

A full one hour report was promised on at least one network.

At noon of the Friday when the report was to be made, Tonya Harding had one of her henchmen
smack Nancy on the knee. This news story actually interrupted normal TV shows. The news coverage carried it as the new "Number One Story."

The Chiapas was not mentioned on TV for at least two weeks. And then only in a very off hand manner.

It took me years to hunt down what had happened. And then one day, Rolling Stone had an article about how much control our Big Banks have over the media. The article mentioned in passing that Citibank had put the word out that no news people from the Big News Agencies should continue with the Chiapas story.

And none did.

[BOG PERSON]

10. whatever

my point still stands though: big bang theory is an awful, awful show.

[PCIntern]

12. True 'nuff...

many years ago, there was a Meet the Press, must have been in '66 or 67, and about 20 minutes into it, one of the RWers being interviewed was called on the carpet and really blown out of the water....I don't recall the issue, but it was a big deal at the time...all of a sudden, the show CUT, and promos began for the upcoming new season which ran for about 7-8 minutes. No mention was ever made of the show again...EVAH.

[truedelphi]

13. PCIntern, that is a very interesting story.

Points out exactly what this OP of mine was trying to get across.

[PCIntern]

14. Those of us old enough to remember the 11/22/63 afternoon

might recall that all kinds of things were stated...and then retracted. when I was being driven home from school, they hadn't caught Oswald yet, and the newsman on the radio said that police were searching for a "known Communist". this was shortly after it happened, and our school had early Friday dismissal, so I was quite aware of what was going on minute by minute. Later, many things were ignored which had come to light in the first few hours...also happened with Bobby in 1968. and it wasn't speculation...it was eyewitness testimony which was essentially stricken and never ever revisited. Not even to 'prove' that it was faulty.