Captive's Log

[weaktwos]

Man, how many days have our news stations been hijacked by Anna Nicole Smith news? Too many.

So, this morning we saw appellate court arguments. Of particular interest was Virgie Arthur's attorney (I think this was a lawyer who specialized in appeals, since she was different from Virgie's lower court attorney). Virgie's lawyer looked a bit like Natlie from "Facts of Life".

Or is that just me?

Comments

[reannon.livejournal.com]

To be fair, as annoyed as I am with the constant ANS coverage and so far past caring... our internal reports show that any ANS story is the first one clicked when people come to our site. They scroll past the AmerenIP hearings and the Libby trial and local murders to see what's the latest on Anna. So as long as people click it, we'll be putting it up there.

(Speaking of which, thanks for adding CultureGeek to your links!)

[weaktwos.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I understand supply is meeting demand.

Still, it's excessive. I'm saddened to see that news media (television) is more about entertainment (news you want to see) then an objective conveyance of national and world events.

That Ben Bernanke's presentation to the House Budget committee only got 30 seconds of coverage was kinda sad. Or any of the interesting things going on around the world (the Iraq war, etc.)

[reannon.livejournal.com]

TO be honest, it's always been that way. If we tried to tailor our coverage only to what we deem important, we get accused of being the "elitist media," liberal snobs who don't understand the Real Amerkun Experience (tm). We keep writing about the important stuff, it's all out there in print and web (not TV, they have X amount of time). But importance is decided by the clicks.