MSNBC Split Screen Breaking News:

[PCIntern]

Britney Spears custody hearing on left, Anna Nicole Smith on right.

No sign of War, Libby, Blair, anyone anr anythiing which has any real meaning.

[Little Wing]

1. I knew it

[helderheid]

2. here

http://today.reuters.com/news/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&storyid=2007-02-22T141926Z_01_N21305078_RTRUKOC_0_US-COLOMBIA-CLOWNS.xml&src=rss

[jaxx]

3. That's the "liberal" media for ya.

[Lone_Star_Dem]

4. Sad

But this is what we've become.

[asjr]

13. Very sad, and in some cases

almost obscene re Anna Nicole. It is hard to believe the media would broadcast a hearing concerning people who still want a piece of celebrity even if she is dead. But, as you say, this is what we've become. Even the dead can't rest when the media steps in.

[gratuitous]

5. But wait!

What about David Geffen?

The news America wants and needs to hear.

[Warpy]

6. Yeah, and people wonder why I stopped watching on

Nov 3, 2004. If I wanted the Enquirer, I'd pick one up at the supermarket.

The funny thing is how little I've missed it. It had become a daily ritual, that's all, a way of marking the transition from afternoon to evening. I was usually on the computer, anyway, so I missed most of the tabloid crap and only watched the last 5 minutes or so when they often did real news on CBS.

Reruns of "The Simpsons" tell me more about what's going on in the country than the evening tabloid broadcasts do.

[tridim]

17. I had a long time habit of turning on MSNBC while getting ready in the morning

I haven't been able to do that for awhile now. They lost a viewer because of their wall-to-wall ANS coverage.

Wonder if they care?

[Wiley50]

30. I Quit Watching TV on 11/03/04 Also

And it's been great to have my mind back.

I heartily recommend it for everyone.

Wish I had done it years before.

[Warpy]

33. Oh, I still watch TCM and other old movie stations

I used to watch the interior desecration channel but I got very sick of California yuppies going into huge trophy kitchens and smirking that they never cook.

I still greatly enjoy "Mythbusters."

Other than that, it's there mostly for occasional rented DVDs.

[JackBeck]

7. What war? Who's Libby? Isn't Blair that guy with the funny accent?

[Horse with no Name]

8. Maybe we could just have a Brittany Anna Nicole Spears channel

Too bad solutions weren't that easy?
The "icky" thing is that most of these come attached to Rita Cosby.:puke:

[slackmaster]

9. My mind keeps flashing back to a scene in the original Dawn of the Dead movie

Character Fran wonders:

WHAT ARE THEY DOING? WHY DO THEY COME HERE?

Steve replies:

SOME KIND OF INSTINCT. MEMORY...OF WHAT THEY USED TO DO. THIS WAS AN IMPORTANT PLACE IN THEIR LIVES.

[onecent]

10. This is just hilarious! Don't judges want respect? This judge is

a clown...and his court is a big fat fucking circus.

Whether Anna Nicole was a misfit and/or dysfunctional it still seems she should be buried where it is EVIDENT she wanted to be buried.

Our media channels are just a big fat joke. I told my husband, Jesus Christ a fucking war is going on and our boys and girls are dying and everyone is breathing heavy over MSNBC, CNN AND FOX...waiting to see what the misfit little prick judge is doing to do next.

Sometimes you just wish you could move somewere far away from

B U S H W O R L D....

[kenny blankenship]

11. Oh stuff the war! Does Britney have custody of Anna Nicole's body yet???

[global1]

18. You' ve Hit On It - That's Why Brittany Is Acting So Erratic......

she is the father of Anna Nichol Smiths baby and is distraught about ANS death. She's afraid she'd ruin her career if she came out and spoke up.

[kenny blankenship]

21. But who is to get custody of Britney's HAIR???

[badgerpup]

23. Apparently, the first person to pony up a million on ebay...

...saw where her hair..WITH extensions...the clipper she used, and the Red Bull or whatever it was she was drinking was for sale for that amount.

My gods...:banghead::puke:

[davekriss]

12. Society of the Spectacle

The fetishism of the commodity — the domination of society by "intangible as well as tangible things" — attains its ultimate fulfillment in the spectacle, where the real world is replaced by a selection of images which are projected above it, yet which at the same time succeed in making themselves regarded as the epitome of reality.
-- Guy Debord, Society of the Spectacle

For many people the Britney Spears and Anna Nicole Smith spectacles are more real than the Iraq war and the neo-con rape of America. Sadly, these same people sometimes actually vote.

(Great little book, btw.)

[jobycom]

14. Think of it as the hook

that brings people to the screen, and keeps them there for the more world-relevant news.

Now, if we can just get them to report on the world-relevant news...

I really don't have a problem with what the media covers, it's what they don't cover that bothers me. Some people care about these stories, for a variety of reasons. For me, Spears reminds me of my niece, whom I'm very worried about at this moment. Others have reasons for being interested. The problem with the media is that they don't cover what's happening in Iraq alongside these stories, and when they do, they cover it poorly.

[dancingme]

15. don't forget the Daniel Baldwin trial

brother of Alec - for stealing a car. Faux News reported on that trial yesterday rather than report on the Libby jury charge.

[EVDebs]

16. Another blonde missing in the Caribbean ? stay tuned to FoxSnooze nt

[EmmitFitzhume]

19. Hey MSNBC

covers a wide variety of meaningful topics.

When the hearing went into recess for lunch yesterday, the split screen switched to Spears and a car chase. Pathetic.

[tex-wyo-dem]

20. All hail tabloid teevee!

Who wants to hear about that nasty old war, anyway?


p.s. Go figure...two attractive white blonde females.

[PCIntern]

22. I'm sorry...

has anyone else here evcer heard lawyers screaming at a judge as to what his duties under the law are? Here in Philly, they'd be locked up for a month for contempt.

[Arugula Latte]

24. Bread and circuses. Look -- something shiny!

Pay no attention to your rights being eroded away and democracy being flushed down the crapper.

[Bozita]

25. Nora O'Donnell anchored. Is this an upward career move?

This was shortly before noon ET.

[raggedcompany]

26. ad revenue is way up, I'm sure. n/t

[BigBearJohn]

27. I'm so sick of Anna's story

[lectrobyte]

28. Just turn it off. Any real news, you'll get it other ways. Otherwise, it's

just an annoying distraction at its best, and framing messages into your head at its worst.

[AX10]

29. I'm sick of celebrity! I hate "reality TV".

Anna Nicole and Brittney are W$%&@s! They are not news worthy! The media does not want any negative attention brought to Bush and his minions.

[Cha]

31. MushySycophantic

NoBodyCares.

[SoCalDem]

32. What?? They're serving Libby's veggies to soldiers?? Alert Duncan Hunter immediately.

:)