Do you think there is a lot of interest out there

[babylonsister]

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for public impeachment hearings next week?

Edit to add: iirc 'everyone' tuned in to Watergate. Has our attention span diminished? Not mine


https://www.npr.org/2019/11/06/776968157/impeachment-inquiry-to-move-into-public-hearings-phase

Impeachment Inquiry To Move Into Public Hearings Phase
November 6, 20194:21 PM ET
Heard on All Things Considered

[unc70]

1. YES!

[Lifelong Protester]

2. Also Yes!

An enthusiastic yes!

[rampartc]

3. no. it will be a ratings disaster

cherry picked (congresscritters gone wild) for the fox news audience.

[nancy1942]

4. I think not.

I honestly think that the average person would not put down their phone long enough to watch a bunch of politicians squabbling on t.v. I can't think of a single person I know who would consider watching it.

[marlakay]

5. Only people interested in politics

Or the news will watch it. And those of us with a brain know it will be Team democrats and the truth and Team Trump and his lies.

Like we really don’t need to watch a thing to already know that. Everyone does.

[crickets]

6. Startin' soft and slow, like a small earthquake... nt

[KY_EnviroGuy]

7. Interest yes, attention and viewing no. People nowadays want instant gratification.

Most will just scan through summaries at the end of the day, IMO.......

[UniteFightBack]

8. They'll be plenty of high and low lights on the evening/late night/morning news. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. CBS broadcast evening news was promoting it as "must-see tv"

[lunatica]

10. People will know.

People don’t have to watch it to know what’s happening. It will be in every single news outlet and station all the time. It will be all over DU all day long for as long as it lasts. It’ll be the same on sites like Buzzfeed and blogs everywhere. Twitter will have hundreds of tweets about it all day long too. It will be the leading story on all local news stations every evening.

It will be impossible to NOT hear about it.

[blogslut]

11. I think yes

[leftstreet]

12. There would have been a couple years ago

But by now everyone EXPECTS Trump to act illegally, immorally and be just plain disgusting. And they don't expect anyone to do anything about it

[babylonsister]

13. Hopefully public impeachment hearings

will be recognized as Dems doing something about it.