Good day to bury bad news

Frederico

When governments bury bad news..

10 things you may not have noticed happening in the world..

Quite scary.. 5 years ago this sort of thing would have been considered crazy lefty tin foil hat stuff, now its run of the mill..

http://www.tucsonweekly.com/gbase/Currents/Content?oid=oid:86394

Manic Moran

Ddi you actually read the article, or did you just not get past the group's name?

The premise isn't that the government is squashing news (indeed, all the articles mentioned are linked to the publications that wrote them), but complaining instead that for whatever reason the media simply chooses not to cover what's really important, focusing instead on trivial (but evidently appealing) issues.

It's certainly a problem, but far from government censorship.

NTM

oscarBravo

Moved from Politics.

Frederico

Oh I see the coincidences

I also see the fact that the American people will never ever know that Haliburton helped supply Iran with whatever.. it will just never come out. Take Abu Ghraib.. that should never have come out. It was known for months, people in power and in news had looked at the pictures already, but it was just going to be buried. I am amazed it actually came out.. stunned it saw the light of day.

This article highlights much more than our petty consumer media tastes... I've read and seen so many of these type of articles and reports already..

There was one awhile back.. ABC i think it was, pointing out how every time the terror alert in the States went up a colour it was beating a relatively damaged anti-Bushcamp story.. 10 times I think

Be it media or government string pulling (i dont mean censorship) we don't get the full picture about anything

Manic Moran

Frederico wrote:

This article highlights much more than our petty consumer media tastes...

It does? Just to be sure, I wasted another two minutes of my life reading the article in its entireity. Please quote any one line which supports the premise that government interference had anything to do with the listed stories not being given more publicity.

Be it media or government string pulling (i dont mean censorship) we don't get the full picture about anything

Probably true, but it's as much our fault. See this http://ezraklein.typepad.com/blog/2006/07/things_that_mak.html article by Ezra Klein lamenting the priorities of the media over the Bush/Blair open microphone story by way of an example of the symptom.

NTM

Frederico

I am using the article to highlight stories that we didn't see. America is a completely changed country you can't just let things like Abu Ghraib out. Most of the American reporters are such a bunch of scared little sheep, who wants to break the Haliburton story? who has the balls? all this isn't just because some Jon Benet style story breaks, the press has become too timid in post 911 America, they'll come round again but its atrocious right now.