If you want to click through you can see some footage on the Think Progress site.Our national media embarrassment was again on full display on Friday. Both MSNBC and Fox News devoted more coverage to Anna Nicole Smith — three weeks after her death on Feb. 8 — than they did to the multiple developments involving the neglect and deplorable conditions at Walter Reed military hospital.
The most lop-sided coverage by far was aired by Fox News, which featured only 10 references to Walter Reed compared to 121 of Anna Nicole — roughly 12 times the coverage. MSNBC featured 84 references to Walter Reed and 96 to Anna Nicole.
"In the post-meditative experience become a child of illusion" is a slogan from the Tibetan mind training tradition. We engage the world as we experience it all the while realizing that reality is not as it seems to be.
Monday, March 05, 2007
Walter Reed and Anna Nicole Smith
Okay. This is pretty disgusting. Take a look at a short article from Think Progress called "Fox News Devoted 12 Times More Coverage To Anna Nicole Than Walter Reed". Here's what it says:
I am willing to bet that most of that coverage by MSNBC was by Keith Oberman.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, when I see how the news media (and the public) can fixate on B. Spears, Natalie Holloway, Anna Nicole Smith, etc etc etc, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.