Real News Loses to Fluff Again

[babylonsister]

http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0209-32.htm

Real News Loses to Fluff Again
by Antonia Zerbisias

Anybody want to bet against me that, over the next few days, the U.S. media will be more consumed with the sudden death of DDD-list blond bombshell Anna Nicole Smith than with Tuesday's report by a U.S. congressional committee that an estimated $12 billion (U.S.) – 360 tons of shrink-wrapped C-notes – were flown to Iraq between May 2003 and June 2004?

No, I didn't think so, even though the cash can't be accounted for, even though there are suspicions that much of it ended up with the insurgency, even though U.S. troops are getting killed for lack of proper armour and equipment.

Turn on the news and it's been all about "astro-nut" Lisa Nowak, she who should land a Depends endorsement deal, and her wild cross-country pursuit of love lost in space. Or something like that. Fill in your own space oddity pun. Every news organization has, as Jon Stewart pointed out the other night.

So here we are, on the eve of the fifth year of the Iraq invasion, and the "shock and awe" continues to be that the mainstream media watchdogs rolled over for the Bush-Cheney war and have yet to report on where they went wrong, what they missed, what they ignored, what they buried.

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The danger is that, as the Bush-Cheney administration continues its bellicose bellowing, not only about Iraq but also Iran, the media again take at face value whatever the White House throws its way, not investing the resources to go beyond cheap and easy "live" time-fillers.

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[Critters2]

1. Media, hell! It's happening on DU.

Try posting this in The Lounge and watch the Anna Nicole worshippers come after you.

It's pathetic.

[physioex]

4. I don't care for the ANS story....

It is a tragedy, but I agree we have more important issues. But as long they keep it to the lounge I would be ok with that....

[BOSSHOG]

2. Hey Sis, we are multi-taskers

We can keep all those stories up in the air and the important ones too. The trash which supports the party of responsibility doesn't want to know the truth so they have to be entertained by nowak and anna. I'm optimistic and your post is one of many reasons why. The bush-cheney crime ring cannot keep the truth from peaking its head up and brightening the world like Crocus in the springtime. and the last thing evildoers want to see is flowers.

[Missy M]

3. How would the insurgents get their hands on the $12 billion...

you would think it would have been closely guarded. I thought it went to the so called contractors with no accounting by them.

[TwilightZone]

5. Plenty of alternatives

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x162383

It seems that some other news somehow gets through.