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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 11:51 AM Original message |
How does a fire in Asbury Park, NJ, qualify as national breaking news? |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
1. It boggles the mind. I'm surprised they don't cover jaywalking. |
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asthmaticeog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 11:53 AM Response to Original message |
2. I blame Rove. |
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ck4829 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 11:54 AM Response to Original message |
3. BREAKING NEWS: Cat stuck in a tree |
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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 11:58 AM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Bread and circuses. |
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soleft (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:00 PM Response to Original message |
5. Thank you for posting this, I didnt know about the fire |
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paparush (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:08 PM Response to Original message |
6. 'Cause they don't want to announce that today $1 Canadian = $1 US |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
7. I don't understand the criticism. DUers talk about that BS all day everyday... |
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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:23 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. You hold an Internet discussion forum to the same standard as nationally televised news programming? |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:25 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. Only if it's between the roses. |
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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:26 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. ... |
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BlooInBloo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
18. I don't think it makes much sense to criticize the media for talking about... |
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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:52 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Most people don't even know what EVE-online is. |
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Zywiec (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
8. Why do you hate America? n/t |
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Crabby Appleton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
9. casue the have video of it. nt |
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Fridays Child (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:31 PM Response to Reply #9 |
14. Because, in the frenzy to be the first to televise every story, they've all lost their minds? |
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donkeyotay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:35 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. That's it. They have affiliates with cameras. What they don't have are |
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karlrschneider (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
11. The fire was started by an out of control taser. |
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rucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 01:14 PM Response to Reply #11 |
25. intended for a breastfeeding mother. |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
16. Answer: It fucking DOES NOT QUALIFY. |
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Retired AF Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 01:28 PM Response to Reply #16 |
28. So a kid living in poverty that dies of starvation |
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Selatius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 05:39 PM Response to Reply #28 |
31. The issue of poverty should get coverage, even though individual cases may not. |
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bbernardini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
17. Because 3 firefighters were injured? Because Asbury Park is a dying town? |
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Occulus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 12:55 PM Response to Reply #17 |
20. Where are all the New Orleans stories, then? |
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bbernardini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 01:00 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Hey, I never said it was RIGHT... |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
22. FIRE! HOT! FLAMES! HEAT! NOISE! BIG TRUCKS! FIREMEN! |
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Beelzebud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
23. Because they want to distract you from anything of importance. |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 01:12 PM Response to Original message |
24. Asbury is close enough to BSNBC's Secaucus studios that they can go cover it |
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AuntPatsy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 01:21 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. For me as well my sister lives on the shore. |
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americanstranger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 01:34 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Secaucus and Asbury aren't really that close... |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 01:41 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. True, but if it were a similar building in a small Midwestern city, |
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madinmaryland (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-20-07 01:22 PM Response to Original message |
27. Because it is Bill Clinton's fault. |
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