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New York Times story on TV analysis falls off google news
The story that TPM readers considered front page stuff has fallen off google news with only a dozen or so news organizations picking up on it.http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/20/washington/20generals.html?hp=&pagewanted=allScary.
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Of course it did. The vast majority of the population doesn't care as long as they can vote for their favorite American Idol every week.
April 20, 2008 7:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
And all of those military analysts will go right back on all of those cable networks and nobody will ever acknowledge that questions were even raised, much less attempt to answer them.
Say what you will about the New York Times but when the Jayson Blair thing happened, the paper fessed up. Judith Miller eventually lost her job. The Times, for all its faults, doesn't pretend that substantive criticisms of it will just go away if they're ignored.
But Cable TV Newsotainment just ignores this kind of thing.
April 20, 2008 8:21 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, its back on, with a few more news agencies picking it up. AN interesting flaw i google news though: if you sort by date, you now get 22 entries. If you sort by "date with duplicates," you get 74 entries, including many foreign newspapers, and several mainstream news sites, none of them with duplicate "boilerplate" copies of the article. Google news isn't exactly reliable, it seems.
April 20, 2008 8:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I figure the story might stay alive in print and online, because none of the TV nets will touch this. If they did, they'd be admitting what complete utter fools they are for buying into all this, for not vetting these brass-covered war profiteers, and then they'd have to explain themselves. Not holding my breath waiting to see this on the tube.
April 21, 2008 12:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
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