Anna Nicole? Hardly.
MSNBC top story, "Tabloid Life Ends," the next story regarding the Libby trial.
CNN top story, "Autopsy planned for Anna Nicole Smith," the third most popular video on their website a video entitled, "Anna Nicole on her weight."
Fox News top story, "What killed Anna Nicole?" The next top story being the paternity battle over her daughter.
Smith's contributions to our world including waitressing, exotic dancing, working at a Wal-Mart, posing as a Playboy playmate, appearing in several flop movies, and giving us the grand and intelligent reality series The Anna Nicole Smith Show shown on one of our nation’s proudest networks, E!.
She represented the product TrimSpa, their motto “Be Envied” exploiting the already devastatingly perverted image of female beauty in this nation. Just last month TrimSpa was fined $1.5 million for making false claims about their product by the FTC. It is also a product that includes some of the same ingredients that ephedra contained.
Her death is tragic, as any death really is, but the top news story on the major networks of the world? I won’t argue that our media’s priorities are skewed, and rational person knows that. I argue instead that our priorities are skewed… the media wouldn’t post those stories unless people were reading them. You have to provide for your demographic right?
What else happened today that might be a better-prioritized news story? This is a no-brainer.
Today, four men, armed with assault rifles, stopped a pickup truck carrying illegal immigrants in Tucson, Arizona. They proceeded to shoot—shoot—three of the immigrants, killing one on the scene and forcing six or seven others to come with them. Two more bodies were then found a few miles north of the original crime scene. The rest of the immigrants that had been kidnapped have yet to be found. They are now hostages of captors that are clearly willing to murder them in cold blood. There were four other immigrants that were left at the scene, one woman who had been shot in the neck, one man who had been shot in the hand and lost several fingers, and two other men who were taken into custody as witnesses.
Twelve hours prior, 70 miles south of this heinous crime scene, eighteen immigrants were robbed at gunpoint by four heavily armed men clad in ski masks.
Which of these events should take precedence in the American consciousness?
—iStephen
CNN top story, "Autopsy planned for Anna Nicole Smith," the third most popular video on their website a video entitled, "Anna Nicole on her weight."
Fox News top story, "What killed Anna Nicole?" The next top story being the paternity battle over her daughter.
Smith's contributions to our world including waitressing, exotic dancing, working at a Wal-Mart, posing as a Playboy playmate, appearing in several flop movies, and giving us the grand and intelligent reality series The Anna Nicole Smith Show shown on one of our nation’s proudest networks, E!.
She represented the product TrimSpa, their motto “Be Envied” exploiting the already devastatingly perverted image of female beauty in this nation. Just last month TrimSpa was fined $1.5 million for making false claims about their product by the FTC. It is also a product that includes some of the same ingredients that ephedra contained.
Her death is tragic, as any death really is, but the top news story on the major networks of the world? I won’t argue that our media’s priorities are skewed, and rational person knows that. I argue instead that our priorities are skewed… the media wouldn’t post those stories unless people were reading them. You have to provide for your demographic right?
What else happened today that might be a better-prioritized news story? This is a no-brainer.
Today, four men, armed with assault rifles, stopped a pickup truck carrying illegal immigrants in Tucson, Arizona. They proceeded to shoot—shoot—three of the immigrants, killing one on the scene and forcing six or seven others to come with them. Two more bodies were then found a few miles north of the original crime scene. The rest of the immigrants that had been kidnapped have yet to be found. They are now hostages of captors that are clearly willing to murder them in cold blood. There were four other immigrants that were left at the scene, one woman who had been shot in the neck, one man who had been shot in the hand and lost several fingers, and two other men who were taken into custody as witnesses.
Twelve hours prior, 70 miles south of this heinous crime scene, eighteen immigrants were robbed at gunpoint by four heavily armed men clad in ski masks.
Which of these events should take precedence in the American consciousness?
—iStephen
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