Bombs everywhere, and we get........"Dismissed juror #5"

[SoCalDem]

Honestly.. I should not be amazed, but every time I tune to a "news" network , expecting News....well you know what I mean ...

MSRNC
The trial of the philanderiing husband of a murdered pregnant woman that no one , other than her immediate circle of family and friends, cares about, is more important than the fact that the world is in total chaos....

CNN..

Pay yourself first.. how to save money.. :eyes:


FOX..


not enough money in the world for me to check in there

[lovedems]

1. If I see Juror #5 one more time, I am going to scream.

That guy is a babbling idiot!

If he is the typical person who is sitting on the jury, things are looking good for Peterson. That guy is a dumbass!

[LibDemAlways]

8. You've got that right.

Geragos must have looked at the questionnaires and picked the twelve with the most moronic responses.

[lovedems]

11. If that dumbass is any indication of the others on the jury,

things are looking pretty good for Peterson.

He actually said, "Pregnant women are crazy". :wtf:

Not the kind of guy I would want sitting on the jury of my dead, pregnant daughter.

He should be embarrassed but I don't think he's smart enough to recognize that emotion.

[DemBones DemBones]

10. Smart people often avoid jury duty, and, if they

are called, defense lawyers usually want to get rid of them, not seat them on a jury.

[lovedems]

13. That is what I heard from the OJ trial.

Looking back, some "expert" said most on the jury were uneducated and therfor not really capable of sorting through all of the evidence in a practical manner.

Didn't they return a verdict rather quickly with OJ? If so, then the above conclusion would make alot of sense.

[booisblu]

2. Hey

you forgot my personal fave KOBE KOBE KOBE. I hate tv

[SoCalDem]

4. Shhhhh.. now you did it..

We'll probably get the "Kobe Alert" in a few minutes..

Damn..those sharks have been shirking.. Last year we had "Shark Alert" every few days..

and don't forget...

"Martha...Martha..Martha"

[Qanisqineq]

3. I just learned

from talking to my husband on Messenger, that he is watching Sports Center and he is getting more actual news from that than I am from MSNBC. That just doesn't make any sense to me. :crazy:

[lectrobyte]

5. doesn't make sense to me either, but I get more TV news from

Comedy Central than from all the networks with "news" in their names combined.

[DemBones DemBones]

7. TV's best news source is "The Daily Show."

Hadn't you noticed? MSNBC is vastly inferior to Jon Stewart.

[Qanisqineq]

21. yes, I watch Daily Show, too

I was referring to TV programs that are on in the morning, that were on at the time of my post. You never hear the total of 851 dead US troops on "real" news, but my husband heard it on Sports Center.

[trag]

6. I noticed that as well.

I saw on CNN.com 80 dead in Iraq. Turned on the tube and got a money segment. WTF

[Ripley]

9. And their flippant attitude!

I can't stand to see them get that somber look and say "xx dead today in Iraq." Then put on the perky face and lilting voice when they say, J-Lo got married! Next we'll find out how much those jewels she wore cost!

The Weather Channel pisses me off too. The Freaking Weather Channel got involved in the War....they used to show the Iraqi weather during the war, but when chimp said Combat Over....they stopped. I guess they don't give a shit about the same damn soldiers cooking alive their today.

I almost broke my TV the other day. Maybe I should.

[leftchick]

12. Sadly I believe it will get worse after June 30....

Since that is the day the US gives Iraq back to Iraq. I expect a total news blackout. :(

[MadHound]

14. And this is suprising how?

90% of the US media is owned by 6(oops, 5 no) corporation, most of whom(if not all) have direct connections to either the Bush admisistration, defense industry or both. In addition, it has been an open secret for the past forty years that the CIA and other intel branches plant agents in newsrooms across the country, thus able to shape the news. Therefore, why should it be suprising that with such major stories as the ongoing violence in Iraq, the torture memo, etc, the news outlets are going to focus on something not reflecting badly on Bushco.

Instead, fluff abounds, and real news is regulated to independent newpapers, magazines, and a handful of other outlets. NPR used to be a great news source, but with their increasing reliance on corporate sponsorship, they too are rapidly becoming bought and paid for. Sad to say, but the best place to find out what is going on in the US is to read foreign papers and the net. However it probably won't be long before the net is censored and the conversion of the American public into a clueless herd of sheeple is complete. It is mostly complete now, and while some of that is the fault of the American public for being so damn gullible, most of the blame lies with corporate media and governmental powers. Most people are working so hard and come home so tired that they literally cannot produce the energy to go searching out the real news on the net. Hell, in this day and age most of them don't have access to the net.

Therefore it is imperative for those of us who do know what is going on to spread the news to those who don't. Person by person by word of mouth we must spread the truth to those left in the dark.

[LibDemAlways]

15. You should have seen the moronic

freepers in my office when this "news" was breathlessly announced on KFI yesterday during a break in Rush's show (talk about a hostile work environment). Anyhow, they hung on every word, like this was something that mattered to them or affected them personally.

The whores put this shit out there, and the sheep just lap it up.

[SoCalDem]

16. I know what you mean.. They act like they "know" these people..

I HATE the way so-called NATIONAL programming is used to suck everybody into the personal tragedies of people.. I click the channel every time they stick a microphone in someone's face, and ask for a statement..

It trivializes the personal agonies of these folks.. I feel very sad for the families, but I do not KNOW them, and as sad as it is...shit happens...to all of us..

It's no wonder that the coourt system is is a shambles.. EVERYONE is an armchair "judge,juror,defense attorney,prosecutor".. We are told things that we don't "need to know", and then told that it's somehow "important" to us.. :grr:

Leave these people alone, and report on what's important to ALL of us :grr:

[onecitizen]

17. I know........

and 10 minutes after he was dismissed, MSNBC said he was holding a PRESS CONFERENCE!! What's THAT about? Everyone has press conferences in this day and age. It is so annoying IMO.

[BigMcLargehuge]

18. It's one of the myriad of reasons I've completely abandoned

cable or network TV news. I live in NH, so there is no reason for me to give even an atom of shit about a local murder story in California. We have murdered people here too, and unless I know them, I don't care, and they are LOCAL murdered people.

The way cable news seizes one of these moronic non-news stories and elevates it is just ridiculous. Worse, are the viewers who live on every little detail like it makes an iota of difference to anyone, about anything.

My in-laws are cable news fans and can't help but breathlessly discuss the Peterson case or Kobe Bryant when I am around because they can't conceive of the fact that a well informed guy like me doesn't care, and hasn't ever cared, about insignificant crime treated like a world shaping event.

As if there isn't any other domestic news... I mean, I watch CSPAN, if I have the TV on at all. When they ask if I've followed this detail or that of the Peterson case I usually reply that I was watching a debate on military expenditures and funding, then explain what our Senators and Representatives had to say about it.

Sometimes they listen, more often though, the look at me like I have antlers slowly but visibly growing from my forehead.

[KoKo]

19. Maybe that's one of Fox's appeals. Don't they have alot of political

discussion, even though it's Right Wing? I've never watched them (really) but the reports I hear on DU seem to say they have alot of politics where the rest of us are stuck with Imus (barf) and then nothing until the stuff on MSRNC and CNN at night. Well there's Crossfire, but I gave up on that long ago.

[SoCalDem]

20. i think you are right..

They only have "news" every hour or so, and not a very long segment.. They "need" all the rest of the time to devote to propping the puppet..:)

[Bluebear]

22. Linda Vester/FOX showed an L.A. car chase for an hour

Much more important, you know.

[rumguy]

23. I got rid of cable...I don't miss the cable news - do miss the daily show