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- JCSaint, on 10/12/2007, -4/+96It's sad whenever anyone dies but why does she get this special treatment? She didn't do anything with her life except get naked and get high. There is just way too much interest in her life.
- tomboy501, on 10/12/2007, -7/+94You mean those boring stories regarding billions in U.S. cash on pallettes lost somewhere in Baghdad, and the Pentagon confirming that the Bushketeers fabricated pre-Iraq War intelligence??
Who wants to focus on that when the mystique of Anna Nicole's breasts and her absolutely fascinating parallels with Marilyn Monroe need hours of analysis and attention from our top news organizations.
/sadly accepting the soceity I live in - growlzor, on 10/12/2007, -2/+47I'm pretty sure if Bush invaded Iran and had Paris Hilton killed on the same day we wouldn't hear about Iran until a week later.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+38Wouldn't it have been great if she had married another old guy and he inherited all her money?
- Crashwithuhk, on 10/12/2007, -9/+41Probably the same way they felt before hand. Just because she's dead now doesn't mean she was any less of a dumb bitch when she was alive.
- reddevil3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Brian Williams commented on Thursday's NBC Nightly News: "This may say a lot about our current culture of celebrity and media these days when all the major cable news networks switched over to nonstop live coverage this afternoon when word arrived that Anna Nicole Smith had died."
- acr2001, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27"Is Anna Nicole still dead, Wolf?"
- sideshowRAHEEM, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27Anna Nicole's death has been covered more than Gerald Fords, nuff said.
- elnerdo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24Because boring, useless people find pleasure in knowing about the lives of others.
- appetite, on 10/12/2007, -3/+23Hmmm.. this reminds me of the James Kim story. I think the Digg community is less concerned with media distractions than just who they like and who they don't. They liked James Kim--14,000 Digg stories. They don't like Anna Nicole--2 news stories about how she's distracting the media.
- Spaceboy492, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22God knows she was my idol when it came to marrying for money, being a porn star, and not knowing who my baby's daddy is.
- Rice, on 10/12/2007, -7/+26I didn't know who she was until yesterday.
What makes her special? She didn't sound like a great person. - thepompano, on 10/12/2007, -3/+22I'm glad that a site like ThinkProgress would still call news networks like MSNBC on their *****. I was kind of ticked off to turn them on last night and hear nothing but news about Anna Nicole.
- scotticus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17I listened to NPR all day today at work. I didn't hear Anna Nicole's name once.
I love NPR.
I did have to listen to them begging for money all day though.... - sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -4/+19Daniel close your eyes, momma's gonna diddle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALJVhTOiL-E - shawnfassett, on 10/12/2007, -13/+25The GOP has some cover for a few days now.
Any mention on the news of the NIE/Douglas Feith debacle? - appetite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+14Why is Digg devoting so many front page articles to the death of Anna Nicole Smith. I haven't seen anything on Iraq today.
- cjdunn, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13Also of note is the amount of time each network devoted to her death compared to Iraq during the same timeframe.. For example, CNN 141 references to the death compared to 27 references to Iraq.
NBC devoted 3 minutes 13 seconds to the death and 14 seconds (!!) to Iraq on that nights news broadcast. - revenge7, on 10/12/2007, -9/+20They should just have a picture of her chest in the corner. That would keep most people happy while they show ACTUAL news.
- appetite, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13I think he was being facetious and critical of the news coverage. I thought it was hilarious.
- FlaG8r, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12More people in the general population care about Smith than Ford. Most young adults couldn't pick Ford out of a lineup but they know who Anna Nichole is. Also Ford didn't die of mysterious circumstances at age 39 just months after his son died.
The media gave the people what the largest segment of them wanted - wall-to-wall Anna coverage. - aussiekevin, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Don't shoot the messenger.
The media knows what people are -really- interested in. If people -really- cared more about politics than sensation, the media would know this (with all their fancy focus groups), and wouldn't bombard us with Anna Nicole. Media is a business, their business demands viewers, so they will air what they have good reason to think people will watch.
The media is not to blame here. - ThePlan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12JACK CAFFERTY: Is Anna Nicole Smith still dead, Wolf?
WOLF BLITZER: Yes, We’re going to be updating our viewers shortly on –
CAFFERTY: Can’t wait for that.
BLITZER: — the mysterious circumstance surrounding that. Jack, thank you.
haha classic - gharding, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12The same? Everybody dies. If you can't make jokes about people because at some point in their life they're going to die.. well, that doesn't leave a whole lot of people left to make jokes about.
- quokkapox, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Don't give them any ideas, bright boy.
- mikebritton, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I'd hit it.
- nosferatu, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9there is something deeply wrong in this country. how the hell have we gone this far?
- doolittle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necrophilia
- sundancekid503, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7It's easy to say '***** the media', but they wouldn't run this stuff unless there were thousands and thousands people glued to their TV sets watching it. This isn't strictly the media's fault, it's a sad reflection of what the majority of our society is interested in hearing about.
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -8/+13America is full of ***** half-witted lemmings, and the media caters to them because its an easy sell. Stupid people like stupid things, and theres a hell of a lot more stupid people than smart.
Its disgusting. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5For those who missed the reference, Cafferty was playing off an old Chevy Chase SNL catch phrase: "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead." Chase started using (and frequently repeating) that line to mock the constant coverage of Franco's imminent death.
Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generalissimo_Francisco_Franco_is_still_dead
At least, I think he was. - varmit, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7My guess the daddy of her latest child will get all the money. That is why three people have come forward to say they are the dad, they all want the money.
- diggsIt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6The news industry latches onto a story like this and doesn't let go. Then they ask, 'Why is America so fascinated with such a story?'. We aren't, they are.
- jakdracula, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Yea, and there was no mention of the schools in Iraq that opened yesterday, or the free speech newspapers in Bagdad, or any thing positive about the good things happening in Iraq either.
- Avalontor, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5These comments brought to you by the same folks who gave 10,000 diggs to a phone. Have a little sense of priority here. You have the blame as much as other media news outlets.
- savona, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6yeah, that was priceless. it's good to see that not everyone in the media is a shameless whore.
- threadlocke, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Is anyone really surprised? Our media has always had problems with setting priorities.
- Stevethegreat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3OK she's dead, that's what people do, die with one way or another. Although her death was unfortunate I have to say that she was never a worthwhile person to speak of and the greatest achievement she made was to marry a near-death billionaire. Boobs maybe are important news for some Cro Magnon people but for us the ***** Sapiens Sapiens should never have taken the coverage she had while alive. The most it could happen was a small few seconds referring to her death, more than that was an overkill and lame
- HCJfilms, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Jack Cafferty is such a bad ass.
- Lumiras, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5You have no idea what you're talking about. Anna Nicole was a plaything of the tabloid industry. They made her and they killer her...now they believe they must dance on her grave
- dojonz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Who was the blond reporter with the husky man-voice?
- antifreeze11, on 10/12/2007, -11/+13yeah ***** american media. i am done with it. BBC all the way.
- antifreeze11, on 10/12/2007, -5/+7it is not like they are having 24/7 coverage of this one story though.
- livestradamus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"More people in the general population care about Smith than Ford."
Sad but true... I think it's also safe to say: More people in the general population KNOW ABOUT Smith than Ford. - livestradamus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It is bit of a chicken or the egg thing..
When I say media here I mean TV, Radio & Movies.
Do people's taste in things come from the "Media" or do they feed us nonsense because most of are asinine and want the nonsense?
I think the "Media" chooses to market us useless ***** they can recycle over and over and over again. All the whole while dumbing us down and making us their sheep to throw money and time at crap...
Think all the times in past few years you've heard leather is back in style again.. /rant - johnnyrocket, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Keith Oberman on MSNBC had someone on to grudgingly talk about Smith as his last story, and at the very end, she said "You'll just have to turn your TV off for a while."
A rare moment of perfect clarity on national news. - scotticus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4...or the fact that Iranian bombs were found in the country... or that the fatality rate continues to rise...
...or that General Casey who oversaw Iraq descend into civil war was just appointed as the Army Chief of Staff in the new democratic congress... - doolittle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It will pass very quickly, save articles like this one saying how media should not focus away from the war in Iraq and how it came to be. No other news should be reported at all, only how bad things are politically and nothing else at all.
Anything else, get dugg down. - JSeligman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2EXACTLY
- orph3us, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1look guys, it's really quite simple, or maybe it isn't :P, but anna nicole smith is a stupid naive whore who had problems. She played her persona for all it was worth. Stupid, but likeable. Two totally different things. You don't have to be smart to be well liked. In fact, some of the "smartest" men in the world are also the most arrogant, and potentially, (i know im blowing this out of proportion) also the dumbest. What's important in life? It's all subjective. If you like following the life of a blonde, semi-likeable, troubled prostitute, there really is nothing wrong with that. I don't use prostitute or whore in a negative way, thats what she was. As for reporting on her, news agencies on tv are there for one reason, making money. The news is just a handy product they're using that happens every day.. could be that im cynical, but smith is another product. ***** calling the big news agencies out. *****.. why watch that whole ***** in the first place. And you all know that :P.. Go find some independent media.. blogs... local newspapers... dont give corporate media the honor of calling them out... they never had it to begin with.. and as to this womans death, there is a bit of intrigue since it happened after her son died.. This kind of stuff happens all the time and nobody thinks about it... but thats tragic.. bah whatever.. big long rant ending now. RIP anna
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