Slog - Comments on Night and Day http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day The international edition: The national edition: The question: which site is closer to world consciousness? Meaning, which is closer to the truth--the truth being the total situation? (Thanks to Aexia for bringing the international edition of CNN to attention.)... Copyright 2008 Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:32:07 -0800 Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:16:44 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by tsm It is kind of annoying to look at the Yahoo homepage and see in bold text

"Gunman sent material to NBC"

while in much smaller print we see

"Four large bombs kill 183 in Baghdad"

Priorities ...

]]> tsm http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695517 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695517 Media Wed, 18 Apr 2007 14:44:51 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale True that, tsm. Echoes Eli's post yesterday.

What troop surge? Or, troop surge = car bomb surge.

Fight or don't fight.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695542 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695542 Media Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:09:06 -0800 Comment by Okay but It is natural to be focused on events closer to home. Obviously, a mass shooting in the USA is going to get more coverage than say, a mass shooting in Germany.

]]> Okay but http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695557 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695557 Media Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:18:12 -0800 Comment by Max Solomon the gaze of narcissus.

these 4 bombs, under the noses of our "surge", are the nail in the coffin.

we've lost in iraq. we've lost at home. we are lost.

]]> Max Solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695563 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695563 Media Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:26:30 -0800 Comment by Gurldoggie 33 senseless dead is just another afternoon in Iraq. Imagine if this happened everyday. Would we be talking about staying the fucking course?

]]> Gurldoggie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695571 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695571 Media Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:29:03 -0800 Comment by -B- I agree, this is just a normal day in Iraq and no one puts a face to all the innocent victims of that war. It is an insult to ever day to people there that it is considered ok not to talk about them or look at them as if they are not part of someone's family and they are not hurting. Bush goes to the memorial of the Virginia shootings but is the direct cause of just as many killings in Iraq every day.

]]> -B- http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695631 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695631 Media Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:23:53 -0800 Comment by matthew fisher wilder I guess the numbercrunchers at CNN and MSNBC and other national news sites have concluded that Americans are too bored with Iraq stories, but the rest of the world are not. These media conglomerates need the ad money, too, ya know!

Oddly enough, the only national U.S. paper that seems to relatively give a shit about Iraq more than the others is USA Today, the paper we all made fun of in the 80s and 90s as "DisneyNN"

]]> matthew fisher wilder http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695689 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695689 Media Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:08:29 -0800 Comment by JPF Virginia Tech is still the top story today on Dagens Nyheter, the leading daily in Sweden (as it has been since Monday).

]]> JPF http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695701 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695701 Media Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:26:02 -0800 Comment by horatiosanzserif Right now (6 p.m.), the primary image on CNN.com U.S. is the barrel of a gun pointed straight at me, with Cho on the other side. Someone Slog this??

]]> horatiosanzserif http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695725 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695725 Media Wed, 18 Apr 2007 17:59:15 -0800 Comment by Jude Fawley These photos are FUCKED UP. I don't know what to say, except I am more disappointed with the media than I thought was possible. This is not an issue of censorship either.

]]> Jude Fawley http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695763 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c695763 Media Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:08:43 -0800 Comment by Matt B,
Bush is not the DIRECT cause of death in Iraq unless the distinction between direct and indirect is to lose all meaning.

]]> Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c696043 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c696043 Media Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:10:45 -0800 Comment by Aexia It's sort of a good news/bad news thing.

The good news is that news orgs like CNN and Newsweek are clearly capable of doing better and in fact, ARE doing better.

The bad news is that they've made a conscious decision NOT to do better in the United States because they wouldn't make as much money as a network that focuses solely on Anna Nicole Smith instead of Iraq.

]]> Aexia http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c696044 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c696044 Media Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:12:10 -0800 Comment by elswinger The point is, Iraq happens everyday and most Americans have become numb to it. Virginia Tech is an anomaly and therefore news. I'm not saying it's right, it's just the way it is.

Before Virginia Tech all the news was about Imus, and before that it was Anna Nicole.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c696364 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/night_and_day#c696364 Media Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:16:44 -0800