Posted on 02/19/2006 8:02:33 AM PST by blogblogginaway
If the nation's top magazine have the pulse of the country -- get ready for another exhaustive week of exhaustive Cheney shooting coverage.
This just in! Both TIME and NEWSWEEK are planning covers of Cheney for high impact on newsstands Monday, with each magazine rolling out top staff bylines and thousands of words on the hunting incident: TIME: With deep reporting by John Cloud, Mike Allen and Matthew Cooper/ Washington, Cathy Booth Thomas and Patricia Kilday Hart/ Austin, and Hilary Hylton. NEWSWEEK urgently brings in its big investigative guns: Evan Thomas, Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Richard Wolffe, Holly Bailey, Mark Hosenball and Eleanor Clift in Washington and Carol Rust in Texas.
NEWSWEEK's Jonathan Alter essays that media budget cuts and shifting news priorities have contributed to the public being in the dark about Cheney's ways and means.
The magazine's editor Mark Whitaker defends his decision to push for another week of Cheney-Shooting coverage: "The reason we ultimately decided to stick with a cover is not because of the hunting incident itself-although we did turn up some new details that you might not have read elsewhere-but because of what it says about the mysterious world of the most powerful vice president of recent times."
...Or what it says about the timing and state of print publications in the slick click age of information and news cycles.
Let them rant. The more they rant, the more foolish and partisan they appear.
Let them keep it up.
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. This'll sell more rags.
Great...and hopefully they will got the leading democrats to join in. The people are sick of it...and it will show come November this year and in 2008.
Dragging the dead horse out of the morgue for another beating.
I live and work in NYC. At work I am absoultely surrounded by chip-on-the-shoulder liberals. Even *THEY* were sick of this coverage by Thursday.
They, who would normally be the first to say "gotcha!" to me said "It was an accident".
The MSM, as usual, has no clue what the people really think.
This is what happens when BRATS run magazines, newspapers, and political parties.
well after all, these two mags are in the business of covering the biggest stories of the previous week. this should be expected.
The American people have a low threshold of tolerance for Piling On.
They are beating a dead horse.
They think they are tenderizing a steak!
So out of touch.
YES THEY DO!!!! Gotta bring the Veep down; then, the Sen. from New York will be our chosen one.
The MSM still thinks that they are in control of what we think. This is the comical irony in all of this.
You are correct on all points, the MSM has no clue. I believe that they are planning this so that the DNC can launch impeachment proceedings. There has to be some inside motive for the press to keep this "Cover up" mantra going 24/7.
BINGO!
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