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Forget the corporate media propaganda machine! Please go to independent
media coverage from Pacifica Radio and especially from www.democracynow.org .
Please check it out!
Amy
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Who Are You Watching to Cover the DNC?
Dude
I was flowing like baby during Sen. Kennedy and Michelle Obama. I felt
a little disheartened with the announcement of the running mate choice of Biden
on Saturday and lost some perspective. Then during the telecast of the
convention, my brain hit reset and the enormity of it all sank into me all at
once when Sen Kennedy took the stage. Within seconds I was overwhelmed and my
eyes were like faucets.
Bosco
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Who Are You Watching to Cover the
DNC?
To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, August 26, 2008, 10:43 AM
Amen, Brother! I also got misty-eyed when Michelle Obama was
preceeded by that fine video retrospective, narrated by her mother's tremulous
voice. Did I hear it was produced by Ken Burns?
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From: Martin <truthseeker_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] com>
And, on an entirely serious note, I admit freely that I cried
like a newborn during Senator Kennedy's speech.
http://www.youtube. com/watch? v=fQUxw9aUVik
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<KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net> wrote:
From: KeithBJohnson@ comcast.net <KeithBJohnson@
comcast.net>
Subject: Re: [scifinoir2] Re: OT: Who Are You Watching to
Cover the DNC?
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com
Date: Monday, August 25, 2008, 11:25 PM
We had the same experience, then. I was on CNN, went into
the kitchen, realized Obama's sister wasn't being covered, and also, caught
Carter's interview on PBS. That sold me. I've been increasingly dissatisfied
with most news channels recently, populated as they are with large panels of
analysts who have to shout over each other to get their five seconds' worth of
TV time. PBS is intelligent, concise, and feels so much more relaxing. What a
wonder not to suffer through people shouting over each other!
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From: "ravenadal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com>
I started with CNN on the HD TV. But when I went into the
kitchen to
prepare my dinner, and didn't find the convention on any
of the
network channels, I turned to PBS and stayed with PBS the
rest of the
evening. No commercials, intelligent, concise commentary,
and an
interview with Jimmy Carter, the greatest ex-president of
all time, it
don't get much better than that!
Truly enjoyed the whole Michelle Obama segment from the
video about
her mother and father to her brother's introduction
through her
bringing her "elegant and delightful" daughters up on
stage to Obama
congratulating her via videotape.
~rave!
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED] ups.com, KeithBJohnson@ ...
wrote:
>
> What station are you watching to cover the Democratic
National
Convention? As usual, I started out with CNN, but frankly
that
station's been disappointing me recently. Mayb e it
started when t hey
started hiring the likes of Pat Buchanan for equal time.
Maybe it's
the Glenn Becks and other shrill loudmouths they brought
on to answer
the call of Fox's shrill loudmouths. Maybe it's that all
the anchors
and hosts have to pimp themselves out by saying "the best
political
team on television" all the time; again, in homage to
Fox. Or maybe
it's just the fact that I'm tired of the same old group
of people
talking all the time. Whatever. I just noticed that
everytime I turned
to CNN, Wolf Blitzer or Anderson Cooper or someone was
yammering on
about polls and strategies, pulling out the fancy
electronic maps and
fancy computer tricks, while in the background stuff was
going on I
wanted to *see*. I was really upset when Obama's sister
spoke and CNN
focused on Wolf Blitzer, while her voice co
> uld barely be heard in the background. Then Wolf threw
out "the Best
Political Team on Television" and they cut to commercial .
> So, as I f ind myself doing more and more recently, I
turned to PBS
and Jim Lehrer's group. There I got to see Obama's sister
speak in
entirety. I got professional, level-headed analysis by
professional
people, without shouting, loudtalking and posing for the
camera. I got
to listen to analysts actually get more than "hurry up
you have five
seconds before we go to commercial", and actually get
time to talk in
full conversations, without being rushed. I got
intelligence with
PBS, while my beloved CNN gave me more surface and
posturing. So it's
PBS that'll be my source for the rest of the DNC this
week.
> What are you using for your source?
>
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