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jerryme1 (266 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:29 PM Original message |
Why can Americans as a whole become absorbed with a mass college shooting and Imus but... |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. Because the American media is no more |
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katsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
2. This is not your momma's media. |
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Straight Shooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
3. I wish I had an answer for you. |
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jerryme1 (266 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
7. Exactly. Much of America is bored with Iraq. Time to shop. |
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Parisle (849 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:37 PM Response to Original message |
4. The danger of abstraction |
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amitten (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
5. Simple: Out of sight, out of mind. It's because it's overseas. |
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Esra Star (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. The media is self absorbed. It does not reflect how people think. |
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Venus Dog (419 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:40 PM Response to Original message |
8. The media is manipulative |
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rasputin1952 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
9. Well...Iraq is distant, no threat to the good folks here in the |
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:41 PM Response to Original message |
10. How can they spew their support the troops crap and then see them |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:42 PM Response to Original message |
11. Because most people have not been directly affected, and those who have been |
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stillcool (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:47 PM Response to Original message |
12. looking for truth in the media... |
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sandnsea (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:48 PM Response to Original message |
13. Sense of control |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
14. I hate to have to say this, but I think it's because the Iraq was |
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jerryme1 (266 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 08:02 PM Response to Reply #14 |
18. I agree 100% with your thoughts on the draft. |
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Straight Shooter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 08:25 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Good commentary, napi21. |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:53 PM Response to Original message |
15. propaganda media |
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Captain Angry (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 07:59 PM Response to Original message |
16. Because a lot of Americans still think that Iraq had it coming. |
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shraby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-21-07 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
17. Given their druthers, I think the people would druther |
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