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| (US) 5/06 - Malvo and the War Debate... |
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Daniel Pride
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Danpride
Post Number: 1
Registered: 05-2006
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Monday, May 29, 2006 - 9:29 pm: | 
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I am curious why none of the media covers the most important aspect of
the Malvo shootings. If you look at Newspapers on the dates when the
shootings are underway you discover something I find quite
interesting. The shootings begin to dominate the news the day before
the debate on the Iraq war starts and they catch them the day
after the declaration of war??? If you ask most people "do you
remember the debate about starting the second Iraq war", they will all
answer "yes of course". But if you followup with the question "name
one point in the debate, a speech by a Senator or where their senator
stood", nada.
Almost no one noticed any aspect of the most important debate in the
last 50 years?
And interesting and odd fact. No one has done a story on what the real
impact of the shootings were. It was to virtually eliminate the war
debate from the media.
The special forces background of the senior member of the pair also
seems to get short shrift.
Smells a little fishy to me based on what little I know about it. At
minimum its a very significant part of the story, i.e. that a common
murderer had such an impact on our political process. Why is nobody
covering this obvious fact?
Dan Pride |
Mike Copass
Voting Rights Forum Participant
Username: Votes_with_paper
Post Number: 40
Registered: 12-2004
Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 - 5:26 pm: |
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You raise valid points. The news cycle and presence of stories is apparently manipulated to push certain stories off the front page. I dont know if the malvo/sniper story could be counted in this... but the Capitol Hill shooting non-story Friday probably does.
In either case -- this thread has ZERO to do with voting issues -- so mods, either move it, or do what you do. |
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