Yes, I find it absurd. You'll notice that I've ignored that thread. But then again, Britney Spears regularly makes headlines and I've never understood that either. Maybe headline writers just have an overwhelming secret urge to talk about shoes. Got me.
Media outlets make decisions on what to run with and what not to run. I find a lot of the decisions to be somewhere on the range from trite to odious. But they can also sometimes do a real service by pursuing worthwhile things. And they also sometimes do a real service by ignoring things. A great example of the later is the whole birth certificate debacle on both sides. Right-wingers say Obama faked his birth certificate and he isn't really a natural born US citizen. On the other side you have the fact that McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone. Congress later retroactively made everyone born there a citizen if their parents were citizens but at the time of his birth that wasn't the case (or at least wasn't clearly the case). So he is certainly a citizen but does that make him a natural born citizen as required by the Constitution? I don't give a shit, honestly, and neither do most people. So the larger media has done us a service in this instance by largely ignoring the non-issue of whether Obama and McCain are technically qualified to be President. You'll find people on both ends of the political spectrum who tell you that the media are screwing over the country and engaging in a conspiracy of silence that should properly result in the disqualification of whichever candidate they don't like. Meh. Some things are justified in being ignored. Judah On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Robert Munn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Meanwhile, the cost of the Palins' wardrobe (which will be donated to > charity after the election) is front page news. Doesn't that strike you as > odd? > > On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 9:15 PM, Robert wrote: > >> >> The Columbus Dispatch is not exactly a national media outlet. I am talking >> about national media. Let's see who covers it, and whether they give it >> anything more than cursory treatment. A typical NYTimes tactic would be to >> give it two inches on page A29. >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:276490 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
