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  • ani625, on 12/20/2007, -16/+244..and lindsay pissed in the pool. so what? Screw the celebs.
    • CookieTrain, on 12/20/2007, -1/+56that would be the point.
    • sensoukami, on 12/20/2007, -1/+37I'd like to screw quite a few of them...i just don't need them clogging up the Net/airwaves/cable....
      • ikickass, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1i bet you would ;)
      • astrotrain, on 12/21/2007, -0/+3You may want to think of that... imagine you;'ll be screwing everyone they screwed and well... ** flicks on projector and b&w film starts **, Film announcer: "Your Testies And You...."
    • maximumsteve1, on 12/20/2007, -12/+398Yeah because digg is so above this:
      http://digg.com/celebrity/Britney_s_16_year_old_si ...

      4037 diggs, Go ahead digg me down I just expose the truth
      • rudy23, on 12/20/2007, -10/+28exactly all of you punk ass hypocrites need to stfu.
      • felman87, on 12/20/2007, -3/+40Digg is the mainstream media now? I had no idea we had journalistic integrity
        • kaje, on 12/20/2007, -2/+10I think it pretty much insinuates that more readers/watchers want to know about Britney's knocked up sister than about the war and this is why the MSM covers it.
        • toxicshok, on 12/20/2007, -1/+11I had no idea the mainstream media had journalistic integrity.
        • LeeSoong, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2journalistic integrity? Like CBS?
      • desmondregan, on 12/20/2007, -3/+18lmfao they removed it
      • Homoomo, on 12/20/2007, -0/+2I don't remember anyone saying we were...
      • imikedaman, on 12/20/2007, -0/+4This article appeared on the digg homepage at the same time:
        http://digg.com/world_news/Fidel_Castro_To_Retire_ ...

        I'm pretty sure CNN actually found the solution, not a problem. They apparently give us what we want to hear.
      • MeatBiProduct, on 12/20/2007, -7/+2CNN is just giving the people what they want.

        the only thing that would have topped it was 4 Ron Paul articles on their frontpage.
        • astrotrain, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1CNN is looking just for ratings.... trying to keep the viewers glued in... so they will make lies and make mountains out of mole hills... take for instances a few diggs up "Britney Pisses In Pool", they would take that and add that other celebrities were diving in at the time, and now may be exposed to some STDs or something like that...Blah!
      • jon30041, on 12/21/2007, -1/+2I didn't read that article, nor digg it. I think. I digg a lot of things up... Me being on the site is kinda like a drunk person clicking ***** in no particular order.
    • yfguitarist, on 12/20/2007, -9/+82LEAVE LYNN ALONE!!
      • LeeSoong, on 12/21/2007, -0/+7Well it's about time she catch up with her sister, such a slacker!

        Now, when will she shave her head?
        • userperson, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2Before she rips up a picture of the pope!
          • astrotrain, on 12/21/2007, -1/+2Thats ***** O'Coner... and that was years ago....
    • userperson, on 12/20/2007, -5/+18Screw the Gov't!
      Jamie Lynn Spears didn't steal from me to fund her war.
      • astrotrain, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2No but CNN states they have crotch shot of her...but mysteriously they lost the picture but they will keep you up to date every 15 mins.
    • KingGorilla, on 12/20/2007, -0/+8I wouId onIy care if it was my pooI
    • TicoTico, on 12/20/2007, -3/+2"Screw the celebs" (sic)
      I prefer to ignore them
      • astrotrain, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1I agree we have more important issue then following stories about PPL pissing in pools...
    • Sinay, on 12/21/2007, -2/+3We all want our biggest problem in the world to be just the pregnancy of that girl. We cannot handle bigger problems psychologically.
      So I am fine with these crappy news.
    • brutusx, on 12/21/2007, -1/+2Its not necessarily whats wrong with the media. They are presenting the news that the average idiot (majority) is concerned with. Even if both articles were presented in equal size font and graphic, does anyone think the average person would care? I wonder which article was read more? Face it, humanity is quickly separating into classes of generational stupidity, and increasing intelligence (minority).
    • DocHoliday22, on 12/21/2007, -1/+1I think it's the other way round. I think people want to see and read BS news instead of real world political crap that effects us all. It reminds me of a time a picture was shown on TV, at 6:00PM of a war victime shot dead on the street, laying in a pool of Blood. You wouldn't believe the number of calls the station got protesting the showing of pictures. The news people had to apologise and said they wouldn't show things like that again - they never did. People, men and women need to grow a pair of balls and start taking some responsibility for where their TAX money is going.
    • canman888, on 12/22/2007, -0/+1More of Britney Spears http://www.celebies.com/picture/19295/britneyspear ...
  • jimmyjones, on 12/20/2007, -116/+35americans
    • boobees, on 12/20/2007, -3/+80most americans.... hold on..... SOME americans can't stand this *****. i think
    • ufia, on 12/20/2007, -22/+34This is why the rest of the world is laughing at the USA.
      • 5urr3al5am, on 12/21/2007, -4/+9and the US laughs back.. because of soccer
        • hfactor, on 12/21/2007, -6/+3I think soccer is another reason why the rest of the world is laughing at the USA...
    • t1m0j5, on 12/20/2007, -9/+47and I assume the UK tabloids are holy books?
      • spudnic, on 12/20/2007, -2/+15CNN isn't a tabloid.

        More comparable to something like Sky News
        http://news.sky.com/skynews/home
        • VictoryGin, on 12/20/2007, -1/+15right now in sky's Other Top Stories section (@ 16:23) there are these two stories:
          "Swimming star caught up in nude pics row" and
          "How Celebrities like their lunchboxes"
          ...... I think all news orgs do lame stories
          • spudnic, on 12/21/2007, -0/+3Difference is that they're 'other' stories, rather than having pride of place as the day's most important news.
        • bloodjunkiee, on 12/20/2007, -0/+2All news headlines these days have a poor level of interest to most people. Only low lives find this sort of stuff readable....kind of like chavs
      • peranadigital, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1You also assume jimmyjones is british. Not so much.
      • sparsely, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2No, In the UK, all the papers look like tabloids.
        Hell, they run royalty off the road for photo ops :P
    • shark615, on 12/20/2007, -5/+28Key word TABLOIDS.

      The last time I checked CNN was not a tabloid.
    • a2fan, on 12/20/2007, -2/+49I call BS... having travelled extensively around the world, I see this same crap all over the Americas, Europe, parts of Asia and Australia. Same or local celebs, same press. Famous people screwing up distracts average people from worrying about their own screw ups.
      • LLLSecretChimp, on 12/20/2007, -1/+11You must be new to Digg. It's *always* worse in America. Who are you going to believe, thousands of anonymous comment posters or your own lying eyes?
        • UnterDenLinden, on 12/20/2007, -2/+4Someone with a sense of humor that's not also invariably anti-American! Are you sure you aren't new too?
          • GunDownCCL, on 12/20/2007, -1/+6By your logic, you too are new to digg.
    • Kerch, on 12/20/2007, -0/+12To be fair, half the papers in the UK have had the same story about Madeleine Mccann every day for the past 20 weeks.
    • swr1ght, on 12/20/2007, -0/+9Anyone that has lived in more than one country will tell you that they have the same ***** everywhere. I was living in Germany during the OJ Simpson trial, and yes, all I saw was the OJ Simpson trial on TV.
      On the otherhand, I do get my news from the BBC. Maybe they have a Labor, or Tori tilt, but I don't really know or care.
      • dunk71, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2Tori Spelling? (oooh, a unintentional double hit!)
  • ZeroFeetAbove, on 12/20/2007, -12/+699"It was not desirable that the proles should have strong political feelings. All that was required of them was a primitive patriotism which could be appealed to whenever it was necessary to make them accept longer working-hours or shorter rations. And even when they became discontented, as they sometimes did, their discontent led nowhere, because being without general ideas, they could only focus it on petty specific grievances. The larger evils invariably escaped their notice." -George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four. This pretty much summarizes this very problem.
    • maximumsteve1, on 12/20/2007, -59/+14Anyone else think drew carey sucks at hosting price is right?
      • KingGorilla, on 12/20/2007, -2/+9How did you get from this to that?
      • ryan83189, on 12/21/2007, -3/+0If you think he is replacing Bob Barker, then yes, but he is a decent host, just not as good or gentleman like as Bob.
      • m0neybags, on 12/21/2007, -2/+5Oops, somebody forgot the sarcasm tag!
    • CookieTrain, on 12/20/2007, -7/+36Pretty much summarizes the whole united states.
      • amadeusdemarzi, on 12/20/2007, -4/+2let he who has committed no sin cast the first stone.
        • buckrogers1965, on 12/21/2007, -0/+6Thanks Jesus.
        • sparsely, on 12/21/2007, -0/+4Come back with fish sticks.
        • jon30041, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1And some ketchup and curly fries. Nothing goes better with fish sticks than ketchup and curly fries!
    • tyywebb, on 12/20/2007, -0/+34"Until the become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they they have rebelled they cannot become conscious."
      • thebrawl, on 12/21/2007, -1/+1Why can't they become conscious, then rebel?
    • Po0py, on 12/20/2007, -1/+4Pertinent
    • TheOriginalFox, on 12/20/2007, -3/+17I logged into Digg just to digg that comment.
      • m0neybags, on 12/21/2007, -2/+2Nice, I didn't have to log in to digg because I was already logged in!
        • PrincessSalami, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1Isn't Firefox magical?
        • dorkino, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1Cookies are not exclusive to Firefox.

          That being said, YAY FIREFOX!
    • krnldmp, on 12/20/2007, -0/+7Fix it.

      http://action.freepress.net/campaign/ownership
    • alterImperson, on 12/20/2007, -4/+28I've actually taken to calling kids at my high school Proles. It makes me sad that I'm the only one that gets it.
      • zeptobyte, on 12/21/2007, -1/+14Sad in more ways than one.
      • jbassfretless, on 12/21/2007, -0/+7you're not very popular are you?
      • catullus, on 12/21/2007, -1/+1hahahaaha, i do that too, glad to see someone else does as well
      • DanHawking, on 12/21/2007, -1/+1I do that too, as does the entirety of my peer group. It's good to know there are kindred souls out there.
      • jhaks, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2I guess people will always see things as "us and them". Even with the people who purport to know better. Why do you insist on calling others the proles? What's the point? Does it make you feel like you are better than the "popular kids" that call you dorks, nerds or geeks? If you make it a war of "us and them" you are no better. You might have different ideals but name calling and smugness are immature and child like.
    • zooplibob, on 12/21/2007, -12/+3The fact that they are highlighting the Spears story over those other 2 stories is clear evidence of liberal media bias. The other two stories are about more of Saddam's mass graves and torture chambers just found, which led to the war for which the house funded $70 million. Im guessing most people assumed it was Bush's torture chamber and mass graves when seeing the headline.
      http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/12/19/iraq.tor ...
      • Jeeum, on 12/21/2007, -1/+2Troll much?
      • enki25, on 12/21/2007, -1/+3Neither of the two articles were about what you claim. Shut the ***** up and die retard.
    • Agrunt007, on 12/21/2007, -9/+3It's actually Al-qaeda in Mesopatamia, not Saddam's, grave and torture chamber we found. But hey, since when do facts matter... Damn liberals and their war.
      • buckrogers1965, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2You mean the Al-qaeda that we fund, equip and trait to this very day to do our dirty work for us? That Al-qaeda?
    • SchmidtHappens, on 12/21/2007, -0/+9I'm reading 1984 for the first time right now. It kicks ass so far. That quote very much summarizes America unfortunately.
      • dorkino, on 12/21/2007, -0/+3It's one of the few books I actually enjoyed. I prefer non-fiction over fiction, and while Orwell's writings were fictional... well.. need I say more?
    • jumblies, on 12/21/2007, -1/+9SHUT UP ABOUT POLITICS I WANT TO TALK ABOUT FAT PEOPLE THEY SUCK HAHAH OINK OINK OINK
      • toonworld, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1*sniff sniff*

        Oink... how I miss thee...

        *cries*
  • growlzor, on 12/20/2007, -6/+204This is just sad/an everyday thing in the MSM. I don't understand why people are so infatuated with celebrities. What has she ever contributed to society? Great now I'm mad.
    • CookieTrain, on 12/20/2007, -1/+20Journalism seems to be taking the backseat to sensationalism these days.. Sadly
      • darkcooger, on 12/20/2007, -0/+8I agree, though I'd omit "these days." This isn't a new phenomenon. Remember the Maine!
    • bugsy187, on 12/20/2007, -1/+5Nothing, and now she's rich beyond her dreams... oops, now I've done it.... ;)
    • rome747, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1That's what they do to you.
    • narcofiche, on 12/20/2007, -0/+7Because people would rather focus on celebrity problems rather than focusing and trying to overcome their own problems. Ask anyone why they read tabloids and most of the time they say it's because it makes them feel better about their own lives. If people focus too much time on everyone else then people are going to miss what directly affects them.
    • defektiv, on 12/20/2007, -1/+6i think you'll find it's a small amount about peoples interest and a LOT more about the media shoving that in your faces to distract you from seeing that the government they pay lots of money to write laws for their special interests are criminals robbing us blind.
    • popfrogs, on 12/20/2007, -0/+8The excellent film "Network" from the 70's should be required viewing for all of you. Warning: no asplosions or boobs, lots of intelligent dialogue.

      http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/
      • astrotrain, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1No b()()bs.... then no digg... ;)
    • TicoTico, on 12/20/2007, -0/+4They are useful (for the propaganda system) to divert people from the real issues
    • davin510, on 12/21/2007, -0/+4Lynn Spears story: 4054 Diggs
      Iraq spending bill: 1790 Diggs
      Torture chambers story: 21 Diggs

      ***** hypocrits
  • zaprowsdower, on 12/20/2007, -12/+176Screw Iraq. I'm more interested in the man with blue skin.
  • ZenMojo, on 12/20/2007, -3/+23Tell the public what they want to hear and, failing that, tell them what you think they want to hear. Brings them back every time.
    • Koookie, on 12/20/2007, -1/+9Also tell them what to want to hear.
    • MeatBiProduct, on 12/20/2007, -0/+2Also want to know what they want to want you to know what they want you want them to want.
  • kingmanic, on 12/20/2007, -4/+67CNN: wagging the dog since 1980.
    • zooplibob, on 12/21/2007, -4/+2How is this wagging the dog? The circled news story is about more of Saddam's torture chambers and mass graves they just found... The Bush administration would WANT that to be front page news, since it gives more justification to the $70 million funded.
  • briansearles, on 12/20/2007, -2/+275I know what's wrong.
    There should DEFINITELY be an ad in there somewhere.
    • justice7, on 12/20/2007, -3/+12i'm assuming he's using Adblock
      as you should be ;)
    • Zaggynl, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1what are these "Ads" you speak of?
    • astrotrain, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1AdBlock and Firefox.... making web surfing.... fun and faster again since 2006..
  • yaryarhumphump, on 12/20/2007, -5/+27Bang on... perfect display of what is wrong with the media.....
    • twishart, on 12/20/2007, -1/+0You clearly haven't considered what you'll tell your kids when they start asking about Britney's sister.
      • yaryarhumphump, on 12/20/2007, -1/+3Yes I have shes a dirty girl like her big sister and if they are smart they will ignore that influence...
        or Ill shotgun their boyfriends,
        • xtc46, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3"hi, I'm her dad...I have a shot gun and a shovel... nice to meet you"?
        • jon30041, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1I did that with my sister's boyfriend. We had a talk. I told him about my bat with a nail in it.
    • xRand0mx, on 12/20/2007, -1/+2This crap makes me want to puke.
    • soulkitchen, on 12/21/2007, -0/+3Several years ago I went to CNN to find that we had landed two rovers on Mars, just some little minor Interplanetary travel. I leaned into my living room and mentioned to a group of about 5-6 friends that this had happened. Response = nothing.

      5 min later I read that Britney Spears got married, again I passed this news onto the group. Response = Everyone yells WHAT!?! and comes running in to see if what I had spoken was true.

      In that moment I decided that humanity was doomed.
    • MxM111, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1Hold on! Do you agree that it is a moral question what to tell kids about that if they start asking? And since when the moral questions are not important? Why do you call it wrong discussing that?
  • elakhna, on 12/20/2007, -20/+12All it means is that CNN.com has deteriorated to an unreadable quality... Just use Digg or the NYTimes for relevant news!! Even better, The Economist or Newsweek!
    • Rhino2, on 12/20/2007, -1/+8The Economic of having a baby at 16: Data on Brinty's Sister.

      haha, I joke... I like the Economist.
    • Crabcakes, on 12/20/2007, -5/+9You can't read through CNN but you can still sit through the drivel that is sometimes on Digg and claim it has much more relevant news?
      • buckrogers1965, on 12/21/2007, -1/+1It's easy by using google reader on the rss feed from digg.
    • Homoomo, on 12/20/2007, -2/+5You do know that her pregnancy was on the front page here not but two days ago right? Crap like that makes it here all the time, Digg is not above the cnn page you just saw...
    • lovestospooge, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1The Economist = Foreign Office
    • verifex, on 12/21/2007, -1/+1Digg is relevant to the internet savvy folks; often-times if someone hasn't written a glamorous blog article about something, we rarely see it here on Digg.
  • Totalsam, on 12/20/2007, -7/+46CNN=Celebrity National Nonsense
  • jpetrides, on 12/20/2007, -3/+20There must be an army of people with nothing to do that actually care about this stuff. If nobody cared, then CNN and everyone else would stop putting all of this crap in their shows and websites. The ratings for this crap have to come from somewhere. There are just a bunch of losers out there who get satisfaction out of their lives through living it through the exploits of these celebs. A depressing way to live if you ask me.
    • Koookie, on 12/20/2007, -1/+12Many ordinary people who say they don't want this stuff actually want this stuff. They will lie even to themselves about it.
      • edwartica, on 12/20/2007, -0/+5and others will watch it and brush it off as a "guilty pleasure."
    • fugazied, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3A lot of people don't want to think and the celebrity stuff is just junk food for the brain for those people. The celebrity worshipers buy a lot of stuff also, they are consumer junkies. So of course the advertising dollar follows that kind of news because the demographics are beneficial to the companies pushing those products. CNN is ALL about money after all, they've been manufacturing consent for a long time now.
    • Radan, on 12/20/2007, -1/+4I know you Americans are going to get a chock triggered epilepsy attack because of me saying this, but bear with me please. What we are seeing here, is exactly why government owned news are if handled correctly, the best way to go. Here in Sweden the most watched news which are literally named "Report" are neither advertisement or rating depended as they are being funded by the government through taxes, though they are not controlled in anyway by the government. In the end this leads to a lot more unbiased reports, and so far Spears' pregnancy haven't even been mentioned.

      Of course there are also a bunch of regular corporate owned news stations on other channels, which we may rely on in case that our government turns to dictatorship, though that is something I believe will happen to another way larger part of Digg, before it happens to us.
      • JigoroKano, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3We already have public news, and it is by far higher quality than all of our other news sources.
      • fartbuttes, on 12/21/2007, -0/+4I actually agree with this. As JigoroKano stated, public news sources like NPR and PBS aren't perfect but they're typically a million times better than commercial news. (See: Charlie Rose Show, All Things Considered.) For years I've used the BBC News website to get my daily global news, not because it's the greatest thing ever but because all the commercial American media outlets refuse to tackle global issues. Besides, the "commercial" news media in the United States might as well be government controlled because it's essentially what happens in the end whether people want to believe that or not... there's a big difference between publicly funded news and government controlled news.
      • ordig, on 12/21/2007, -0/+3Sweden Rules!
  • Scheissen, on 12/20/2007, -13/+392Cause Digg is so much better.

    I CAN HAZ CHEEZEBURGER
    Will it blend?
    NSFW
    • yutt, on 12/20/2007, -7/+59The fact that Digg is a comparable source for important and relevant news says a lot about the state of our main stream media.
      • enginbeering, on 12/20/2007, -2/+11Ah yes, the "our show comes on before puppets doing crank phone calls" defense.
        • KingGorilla, on 12/20/2007, -0/+2It is a good defense
        • kingvik, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1http://youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
        • yutt, on 12/21/2007, -0/+3I'm not sure what you're trying to say.

          Are you claiming the main stream media is fine, because if you compare it to media with *no standards at all* it is almost as relevant?
        • jon30041, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1Kingvik, thanks. I hadn't seen that before (seriously) and it was really painful to see CNN guys get on someone from Comedy Central's case about not asking tough questions. That guy with the bowtie was a real dick, and the other guy didn't say anything really.

          Crossfire's gone, right? Please say yes... it was just four people being stupid... Like The View, but unisex.
      • astrotrain, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1And with Digg... no censorship.
    • svivian, on 12/20/2007, -14/+2That should be:
      1. I CAN HAZ CHEEZEBURGER
      2. Will it blend?
      3. NSFW
      4. The cake is a lie!
      5. ???
      6. Profit!
    • ariez84, on 12/20/2007, -12/+101LoL, so true. Digg to me is NOT a news site, but in the category of comedy sites like SA. All the news that get filtered, and make it to the front page is all biased crap that either:

      A) Praise Apple
      B) Make Fun of MS (Or Digg users like to put it M$, because you know, A company likes to make money is evil).
      C) Ron Paul (Or anything that against any other candidate)
      D) Anything that makes fun of religion. (Nothing that show religion in a good way ever makes front page).

      And there you have it. Digg: The unbiased source for news.
      • fani, on 12/20/2007, -3/+31E) Praise Nintendo and goofy Miyamoto/whoever Nintendo
        F) Put down Bush and Govt.
        G) Put down anyone who believes in religion and scientology ( I don't believe in either but I feel people should have freedom to believe in what they want including the ***** up scientology )
        H) Make fun of Sony/PS3

      • dext3r, on 12/20/2007, -19/+11thats because apple is the best, microsoft sucks balls, ron paul is the new jesus, and jesus doesn't exist.
        • buddyfarr, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3dext3r actually had this on the end of that:

          "and Sony is going down the tubes because of the way they are managing themselves into a hole"

          but the Sony DRM worm that he got off of his latest CD redacted it without him knowing it....
        • jake6730, on 12/21/2007, -1/+1this is actually funny, why is it -7
      • captainchris, on 12/20/2007, -0/+22I) Tasers
      • MeatBiProduct, on 12/20/2007, -1/+4whatever happened to try and help locate missing people - those were the best!
      • lasenorita, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2I agree that front page articles on Digg are biased --- it's a social networking site, after all. However, I'm sure many Diggers make use of the sub-categories to find news and information that are of interest to them instead of focusing solely on what's on the front page.
      • Dantetheinferno, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1You missed legalizing marijuana and making fun of the mainstream press.
    • Rhino2, on 12/20/2007, -10/+8HALP! I R CAN HAZ OOBJETTIVE NEWZ?
      • edwartica, on 12/20/2007, -0/+10please spay or neuter your lolcatz. And while your at it, teach them proper English!
      • doctorfungi, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2That wasn't even remotely funny.
    • krnldmp, on 12/20/2007, -5/+3Thanks for being part of the problem.
    • tyzent, on 12/20/2007, -3/+12this is like jon stewart on hardball
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFQFB5YpDZE
      comparing digg to cnn is not unlike comparing the daily show to cnn.
    • eatsleeptrumpet, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1Don't forget "CONFIRMED"
    • poonaka, on 12/24/2007, -0/+2What's wrong with Caturday?
  • rexb, on 12/20/2007, -7/+29CNN = MORONS
    • shark615, on 12/20/2007, -1/+10Lower then that; MORANS.
    • loconet, on 12/20/2007, -0/+9I think it's more like CNN = OPPORTUNISTS. They know they can rake in the $ by feeding the large population of MORONS this crap.
    • astrotrain, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2You also need to include... NBC, CBS, ABC, Local News Stations (such as Filthadelphia, who are more in a pissing match then report real news..."Oh we have 7 awards for Weather, while they have 3..." kind of crap).
  • CookieTrain, on 12/20/2007, -15/+10***** A.
  • Ataxia87, on 12/20/2007, -7/+108http://news.bbc.co.uk/
    • krnldmp, on 12/20/2007, -3/+11democracynow.org
    • MeatBiProduct, on 12/20/2007, -7/+1Oh the BBC now thats objectionable. They are only a UK monopoly that have a strangle hold on their entire country and MSM as you MFR's put it.
      • Haecceity, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2No, the BBC is not a monopoly. There are also private, commercial TV stations in the UK.
    • calon9, on 12/21/2007, -0/+5I grew up thinking canadian and european news was boring. They have some celebrity news, some sensational stuff, but most of it was boring, depressing and yet even as a kid I knew it was also: informative, important, essential.
    • colonelbuckshot, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2I like BBC news. Just don't assume they are completely free from political bias either. The important thing is that the people have news available from a good number of independent sources.
      • colonelbuckshot, on 12/21/2007, -0/+3In October 2006 Andrew Marr said: "The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias."
    • ArandiaT, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1Click it if you want to see a REAL news site
  • WTC7WasPulled, on 12/20/2007, -33/+2Another major problem with this page is no Ron Paul information. Ron Paul is getting so popular its crazy. Why isn't a Ron Paul story on the front page? No Britney's pregnant sister is more important.

    And yeah please talk about the illegal wars and the killing of millions of innocent Iraqis and the gang rape of the former Halliburton young lady employee
    • Frei, on 12/20/2007, -5/+111. You know Ron doesn't think 9/11 was an inside job right?

      2. Why won't other Ron Paul supports get on your case for "promoting" their candidate under the context that he is the savior to the one world government?

      3. 9/11 was not an inside job.
      • buddyfarr, on 12/20/2007, -2/+2holy *****! you should of went on tv since you know for a fact that it was not an inside job...

        /sarcasm

        I don't think it was either but that is just my opinion. I can't state it as a fact like you.
        • Frei, on 12/20/2007, -0/+5I can, there is a mountain of evidence against the conspiracy nuts.
          • twisterrust, on 12/20/2007, -1/+1I think that it can't be an inside Job, cause that just does not make any sense+ all the claims Conspiracy theorist have made sound really lame and in-convincing. but now I am interested to see your mountain of evidence, really I am just curious
          • Locke23, on 12/21/2007, -2/+0in-convincing. nice
            9/11 was not an inside job,
            but it wasn't quite as the gov't descibed it either.

    • shark615, on 12/20/2007, -10/+7Ron Paul still ranks under 10% or even 5% on the polls so he isn't that relevant. Just because rabid fan boys on digg jerk off to his picture whilest digging up every RP related article doesn't mean the real world cares.
      • edwartica, on 12/20/2007, -4/+3Ron Paul is a passing phase, and will be forgotten like so many Perots and Naders.
  • SLuM, on 12/20/2007, -3/+17The century of self has manifested itself into greedy beings who care not for their neighbors well being. I must admit, the people at the top are quite brilliant, domesticating humans into docile beings.
    • cryptomystic, on 12/20/2007, -3/+1Truth.
      Too bad the sheep will digg you down.
    • MeatBiProduct, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1WTF is wrong with being greedy - you live once you die once, get paid in between.
    • JapaneseEconomy, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1Its all a race to fill the 5 last remaining seats on the Illuminati Council. j/k
      I agree with SLuM's post.
  • burden555, on 12/20/2007, -3/+5Thats why they made the movie "Knocked Up" ..... so you dont have too.
    • MaTT2011, on 12/20/2007, -1/+5Your kidding, right?

      In that movie a person gets pregnant and decides to keep the child against all common sense and rationality.....thats not the message we want to put out to america.
      • Zaggynl, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1Huh? I must've missed the message then :/
        I just saw a happy family instead of an abortion and an unhappy almost-mother.
  • Frei, on 12/20/2007, -9/+74Should we link the Digg front page as well? "iphone, Ron Paul, ubuntu, Ron Paul, Macfanboys, Ron Paul, wii, evil microsoft, more gadgets, Ron Paul, iphone, video of dog farting...video of Ron Paul farting"

    People like many types of news, it's your choice to decide what's important.
    • jdissonant, on 12/20/2007, -1/+14Yea, but Digg doesn't exactly masquerade as being a legitimate news source.
      • Frei, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3So one story on the front page of CNN.com that is being covered by most, if not all media outlets including digg destroys all credibility? It's the people who demand this type of news, the people have non one to blame for this but themselves. Maybe you and I don't care for these stories or see the need but the world doesn't revolve around us.
    • wright3279, on 12/20/2007, -3/+2digg has its own agend as evidenced by the stories that appear or don't appear on the front page.
    • xGeneric, on 12/20/2007, -0/+6Yeah I'd have to say it's showcasing more of a problem with society than the media. Unfortunately I know quite a few people who don't care about politics, war, the economy, or any of that stuff simply because it's to complex to think about, and they don't want to be bothered with it. ***** like Britney's sister getting pregnant, or the next batch of American Idol contestants are what interests them.

      If people didn't care about that kind of crap, there'd be no point on reporting it. Unfortunately a very large amount of people care about it more than serious issues.
    • shauncorleone, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2Comment dugg for "video of Ron Paul farting". You know his don't smell, right?
      As big as the "problem" with mainstream media is, they are as a business simply catering to the interests of their audience, and as xGeneric pointed out, the simpler issues are just more popular. For instance, I have the Google Trends feed on my iGoogle page, and the number one hottest search when I opened it this morning was "sweet home alabama lyrics". I have never seen anything along the lines of "Iraq Funding", "Obama drug use" or any political issues come anywhere near that top 10, and there is a reason for it.
  • NeoSporin, on 12/20/2007, -0/+18"I've made a huge mistake" - Gob
    • cannonball, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1"I've made a huge tiny mistake"
    • jab2980, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3Dug your comment for referencing the best show ever on television ;)
  • active1x0, on 12/20/2007, -14/+32But...she's hot.
    • tendonut, on 12/20/2007, -2/+3I'd go to jail for that.
    • ClockworksNine, on 12/20/2007, -1/+2No to the both of you.
    • HerbSolo, on 12/20/2007, -1/+12she'll be a MILF soon.
      • DavidGX, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2Loli AND a Milf.... the internet shall explode.
        • astrotrain, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1I see new sitcom.... the writers strike is over... we shall call it "Loli and The MILF"
  • uziko, on 12/20/2007, -1/+8All you get with cnn/fox is other peoples views on politics which most of them are morons anyways. And the rest is ***** like "so and so got pregnant". Pathetic. Although she is pretty hot, how did she stay not pregnant this long is my only question.
  • le0pard, on 12/20/2007, -0/+20You didn't read either of those stories that you think are so important, but you sure did watch the video of the "Pregnant skydiver falls 50mph to asphalt"

    Does any more really need to be said?
    • buddyfarr, on 12/20/2007, -3/+0that is how Lynn Spears got pregnant! when the skydiver hit the ground the baby shot out and right into Lynn's uterus when she was preaching about abstinance...

      LOL..
  • Swarms, on 12/20/2007, -0/+9The problem with the media is that people soak this nonsense up. They're businesses...if people stop listening to it, they'll stop talking about it. To think this is a giant government conspiracy instead of general stupidity of the public is just wrong.
    CNN President - "“They’re saying, in effect, we give up trying to cover the news in any meaningful way. It enhances our brand. We’re the last man standing in terms of covering the news. We love that.” My ***** detector just exploded.
    • CookieTrain, on 12/20/2007, -1/+3Nobody is saying that it's a conspiracy, but the Media's task should be to educate the public, not stupefy it.
      • ixer, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1In a free market, the media's task is to make as much money as it can. If this is what the public is interested in the most, this is what they will get.
    • Swarms, on 12/22/2007, -0/+1I was talking about the first comment on the page, made it sound like it was the government's fault that people like trivial *****.
  • InetRoadkill, on 12/20/2007, -2/+5That picture pretty well sums it up. News in the US consists of which celebrity dumped which girl/boy friend and who won the last round in American Idol. This is why you need to read the foreign press to get meaningful news. The US MSM has no balls and no integrity anymore and there's a direct correlation to this abdication of 1st amendment responsibility to be the people's watchdog of our govt that has allowed our govt to become a seething cesspool of corruption and cronyism.
  • aparatoc, on 12/20/2007, -0/+18Yeah reminds me of when this happened:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VdNcCcweL0
  • livestradamus, on 12/20/2007, -4/+4This is why I avoid MSM and have done so with a passion for a long while now.
    Revolution will not be televised. Revolution will be streamed...
    as long as the powers that be do not ***** with Net Neutrality. The internet is our only hope.
    • TicoTico, on 12/21/2007, -0/+0DDoS to the revolution streaming server sponsored by the CIA
  • balilanai, on 12/20/2007, -5/+5The idiots are people who read the news. Stop watching CNN and Fox. You will realize how interesting, fun and positive life is.
    • uziko, on 12/20/2007, -1/+3It's true, why would anyone be concerned about all the bad ***** going on in the world, when 90% of people that watch the news have great lives anyways.
      • JohnFlux, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1Sure, who cares about everyone else as long as you're okay.
        • TicoTico, on 12/21/2007, -0/+0So if you don't watch TV you become unhuman? Tell me honestly, are you TV Network executive or a stock holder
          • JohnFlux, on 12/21/2007, -0/+0What? You can be concerned about all the bad ***** going on in the world without watching TV.
  • cortlandjim, on 12/20/2007, -7/+3just SHEEP being lead by the shepherds.
    • saltinekracka20, on 12/20/2007, -1/+6That's such a generic, sheepish statement to make.
    • userperson, on 12/20/2007, -0/+3... opposed to most of the free, varied, innovative, clever thinkers you find here on Digg.
      • KingGorilla, on 12/20/2007, -1/+2I go on digg more for the comments than the actuaI articIes! I Iive a sad sad Iife :(
        • userperson, on 12/20/2007, -1/+3That is sad. I'm glad I'm better than that, I've never been on digg.
  • Narrator, on 12/20/2007, -2/+6I used to follow mainstream news a lot. Then I realized that none of it directly affected my life. I read obscure blogs now that have far better life-affecting content. e.g Housing bubble bloggers who convinced me not to buy a house in 2005.
  • crakbot, on 12/20/2007, -2/+12Go ahead and digg me down but isn't that girl the star of a popular Nickelodeon show. I'm not a parent of a little girl but if I was this might be something of interest to me.

    Plus, it's the job of CNN to make money, it's the job of citizens to be informed. With the internet there can be no blame on the MSM for not properly informing the public.
    • greenm1981, on 12/20/2007, -1/+1CNN's job is to make money, true. However, when a corporation is granted the use of the public goods, such as FCC commissioned frequencies and trunk lines that are in the public right of way, they do have an obligation to serve the public good, not diminish it.
      • MeatBiProduct, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1and a story about Brittaney's knocked up sister is bad how? a lot of young girls can learn from these two bitches mistakes - i mean for ***** sake they basically put the writing on the wall of how to not act as a young woman. regardless i could see how another story about iraq or afghanistan would really enrich all of our lives.
        • TicoTico, on 12/21/2007, -0/+0How can You call this information. It's mere sensationalism and diversion from the real issues.
        • greenm1981, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1I understand that it is an important story. It's just not more important than the issues that are contributing to a constitutional crisis is this country. Endless wars of choice, an executive branch that has ignored the rule of law, corrupt legislators and and ideological supreme court. These are the pressing issues of the day that should draw your attention, commanding the front page every day, while stories of Brittney's sister getting knocked up should be on the sideline.
  • Skurt, on 12/20/2007, -6/+15Wait, what? You have a video of Ron Paul Farting!?! Where!?! That's gotta be some gold right there.
    • MeatBiProduct, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1the best part is people jarring it up to sniff for later!
  • MarrowMan, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1Isn't there real news to report (that isn't fear mongering, celebrity related, fictitious) that is halfway interesting?
  • decruncher, on 12/20/2007, -0/+13wrong.
    both of those headlines were in the same place as the Spears story earlier in the day.
  • SausageSmith, on 12/20/2007, -1/+1Since when has mainstream 'news' media had anything to do with news, though. It's about maximum profit, and not letting the public know too much what's going on in the world. Sadly, the tragedy of Paris Hilton's broken shoe heel is more important and interesting than, say, the situation in Darfur or North Korea. It can only get worse.
  • odessadark, on 12/20/2007, -3/+19Yeah, and? A story about topless women playing the Wii got nearly 6000 Diggs, so this site isn't any better. News is a business, and boring-ass stories about Ron Paul and Iraq don't interest the masses, so they aren't going to get talked about. Welcome to reality.
    • WRE3, on 12/20/2007, -0/+2Wow, keep on preach'in man! You nailed it!
    • Iamyourowner, on 12/20/2007, -1/+1Topless women playing the Wii??? Where?!?
    • colonelbuckshot, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1"A story about topless women playing the Wii got nearly 6000 Diggs"

      Well, that's fair enough.
  • TwoLOUD, on 12/20/2007, -3/+1MEDIA ROOLS!
  • PersianCowboy, on 12/20/2007, -0/+4and its going to be much worse with the new FCC ruling.
  • sporrow, on 12/20/2007, -1/+2While the main-stream media SHOULD have a responsibility to society to give good information, they DON'T, their only job is to make as much money as possible, and celebrity news is how they do it.
  • Spamkeg, on 12/20/2007, -0/+2So with all the crap News sources today....is there one that is fair and objective? Where does one go to get non-bias, non partisan, non bs news from...does such a place exist? Seriously asking here cause everyone seems to hate each news outlet for some reason whether it be online, on tv or in print....

    Who do you trust?
    • Frei, on 12/20/2007, -0/+2Yourself, take everything with a grain of salt and make calls based off your experience.
    • papastout, on 12/20/2007, -2/+1DemocracyNow.org - pretty much anti-big media
      • MeatBiProduct, on 12/21/2007, -1/+2They said non-bias not biased learn-2-read
    • Iamyourowner, on 12/20/2007, -1/+2No there is no source. Like Frei said, take everything with a grain of salt. Always research before you make your decision/opinion.
    • MikeFallopian, on 12/20/2007, -2/+1The Economist, the NYTimes, the Wall St. Journal, the Washington Post and the BBC are all very good. I absolutely avoid the thousands of "alternative" news sources that digg users swear by, since they usually have a clear agenda and less vigorous fact-checking than legitimate journalism sources. CNN and FOX these days are more entertainment than journalism, and it's unfortunate, but the fact is if there wasn't a market for celebrity news and fear-mongering it wouldn't be popular.
    • ryan83189, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1Weekly World News
  • cambob76, on 12/20/2007, -2/+5I think some underestimate the power of media. People care about this garbage because it is shown for people to care about. With a little thought any average person would see how stupid this 'news' is. The problem lies in the fact that people are conditioned not to think... only to accept what the corporations are selling (news or product). I've said it before and I'll say it again: Old media must die. The people must be in charge of information.
    • userperson, on 12/20/2007, -2/+1You're not 'in charge' of your information? That's horrible! We'll have to get you a remote.
    • dhl07, on 12/21/2007, -0/+1That's what Web2.0 was supposed to bring in. Blogging, interconnectivity. I haven't seen much progress though. Only a small small percentage of people get there news from the internet. I don't watch news on TV at all because of this crap, why should I care. I can come here or go to any other blog or site to pick out exactly the news I want and care to see.
  • waves, on 12/20/2007, -1/+1A perfect example of America's fear of sexuality (just read the comments) and how comfortable and desensitized they are with war.
  • ryrysofly, on 12/20/2007, -1/+5stupid writers striker, i think we all know that stewart and colbert would be all over this! haha
  • MasterFunk, on 12/20/2007, -2/+12Seriously, how the ***** is Digg any better?! Do you guys remember the top stories from yesterday?!
    Oh and by the way, I wasn't one of the 4000 idiots who dugg up that story.
  • ExGhost, on 12/20/2007, -1/+1What a disgrace!
  • ubitendo, on 12/20/2007, -0/+6I dugg this, but it seems that some of my fellow Diggers don't notice the celebrity gossip that pollutes Digg.com either.
    • reazal, on 12/20/2007, -0/+2...and the nsfw stuffs like 2girls1cup.
    • chungmaster, on 12/21/2007, -0/+0But then again who goes to Digg for news? It seems your comparing CNN to Digg.
  • dmarquard, on 12/20/2007, -1/+3Rather than explaining to your children what goes on with the affairs of nations both inside and outside of the US, parents should explain the significance of Jamie Lynn Spears' getting knocked up.

    Seriously, people, there really is something wrong with this picture...
    • bingobongony, on 12/20/2007, -7/+2No there isn't stupid *****. We are at war. Everyone knows that. IT does NOT need to be the lead story every day.
    • MeatBiProduct, on 12/21/2007, -0/+2If it rules your life like you ***** act then we've already lost.
  • fabianp, on 12/20/2007, -0/+1Why am I not surprised?
  • Blade2000, on 12/20/2007, -2/+0Someone sure does not know how to use MS Paint!
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