STORY |
MEDIA
TIME ALLOCATED (2) |
COMMENT |
THE PASSING OF
RONALD REAGAN (3)
AND HIS ELEVATION
TO FOUNDING FATHER,
SAVIOUR OF THE REPUBLIC,
ETC., ETC. |
230,000 hours
and counting |
CARPETBOMBING; not
a mind left behind... |
THE PASSING OF
MOTHER THERESA |
17,207 hours |
SATURATION |
PROFESSIONAL
SPORTS |
115,200,000
hours and counting |
INSANITY Yeah,
that's millions of
hours boys and girls
...the circus must
go on. |
THE
DEATH AND INSTANT
CANONIZATION OF PRINCESS
DIANA |
147,750 hours
and counting |
CARPETBOMBING
|
Argentina's economy
recovers by using anti-IMF
approach |
7 minutes |
DOWNPLAYED
If you sneezed
you missed
it. |
US secret destabilization
campaign against Venezuela's
Chavez government (ongoing) |
23
minutes |
SUPPRESSION
If you looked out
the window you missed
it. |
Actual causes
and beneficiaries
of US foreign policy |
9 hours |
SUPPRESSION
A full presentation
is scheduled for
the day hell freezes
over |
Britney Spears
24-hour marriage
and divorce |
23,667 hours |
CARPETBOMBING
A topic of obvious
global importance |
Bill Clinton's peccadilloes
under and beyond his
desk
|
33,580,000 hours |
CARPETBOMBING
A topic of critical
national importance |
Does job retraining
work? |
61 hours |
DOWNPLAYED Doesn't
seem to concern too
many Americans |
Automation's
unrelenting job destruction
in all sectors of
the world economy |
127 hours |
DOWNPLAYED By
this standard, "token
coverage" would seem
lavish |
Health care system
condition and alternatives |
1,198 hours |
DISINFORMATION
Stacked deck against
public, single-payer
system in practically
all programs |
What's the paranoid
Right up to? We're
talking here about
the McVeigh types,
survivalists, Birchers
and KKK |
27 hours |
CRIMINAL NEGLECT No
one really knows
how this interesting
segment of the population
voted or feels
about the 2004 election,
Iraq, etc. You'll
have to go and ask
them. |
THE
KENNEDY/CAMELOT SAGA
(ongoing) |
828,000,000
hours and counting |
RADIOACTIVE TOPIC
80% of Americans
seem to miss
feudal times. Wrap
your mind around
this kind of excess. |
GAME SHOWS |
248,400,000 hours |
Yes, we gotta
fill those "empty"
hours folks... |
NOTES:
(1) Compilation
since 1980. For
obvious reasons
we did not look
at all major topics.
Ecoanimal questions
will be covered
in a separate section.
By "broadcasters" we
mean broadcast
and cable television
and radio. Print
media, its occasional
lapses and exceptions
notwithstanding,
largely reflect,
perhaps in a
slightly less
scandalous manner,
the same degenerate
media industry
values exhibited
by broadcasters.
(2) Best approximation.
We used the data
reported in the
industry's press,
which put the
number of stations
at 11,500, although
no one is sure
of the precise
figure. If anything
we failed to
compute many
media outlets,
hence these are probably underestimates
(3) Does not
include frequent
adulatory coverage prior to
his death. (4)
The listing of
an issue as "covered" does
not signify truthful
or serious coverage,
merely that the
topic was featured.
In too many instances,
due to gross
built-in biases
in media personnel,
not to mention
owners and corporate
suits, the programs
end up misinforming
the public. (5) Most
AM radio today
is in the hands
of rightwing
owners and programmers,
constituting
a solid propaganda
bloc and, as
media analyst
David Brock has
aptly noted,
a significant
part of the "Republican
noise machine."
Brock ought to
know; he has
courageously
admitted that
he used
to be a prominent
member of this
apparatus. |
