Comments on: War Over Ossetia

By: Chief

Chief — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 12:25:24 +0000

And the Pakistan story of impeachment of their President. Or possible impeachment.

Nothing on the news about it. I guess the olympice in China are more important.

By: Jonathan Versen

Jonathan Versen — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 09:58:10 +0000

Hi Maha,
It occurs to me that one of the reasons the events in South Ossetia are not big news on US teevee is because it doesn’t fit certain comfortable predigested narratives: It isn’t, for example, presented as a story of the plucky South Ossetians trying to free themselves from Georgia(like say, Kosovo declaring independence) because the media know that our government wants Georgia to become part of NATO.

Likewise, it isn’t a story of how Russia is bullying her smaller neighbor Georgia partly because Georgia has been pretty brutal in supressing S.O. If the media had an obvious good guy/bad guy narrative– or one that could be molded as such without too much obvious distortion– maybe we’d hear more about it.

By: joanr16

joanr16 — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:59:20 +0000

Agreed, that very young-looking McCarthy fellow over at the Guardian really has the American MSM’s number. Excellent, but stomach-churning, analysis.

By: Preston

Preston — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:38:13 +0000

The comments on the other site are spot on! For quite some time, I have noticed that it does not matter which “news” program I watch while flipping through the channels, they all have the same news “stories” with damn near the same dialogue in almost the same order. It is as if they all purchase their material from one source. Who is selling this stuff to our main stream media? It is inconceivable to me how so much can be going on in the world, and our major news sources (i.e., TV channels) can only give us the dumbest, most unimportant crap they have.