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- Depthfunction, on 06/14/2009, -4/+196CNN was reporting on the story -- occasionally. Fox is, naturally, obsessed with the Palin vs. Letterman non-story. And it's the weekend, so all you'll see on MSNBC are those stupid prison documentaries.
- MrColdheart, on 06/14/2009, -27/+164MSNBC.com had Iran on the front page all damn day
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31238321/ns/world_news ...
complete with video live from Tehran with NBC's international correspondence Richard Angle
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/31344415#3 ...
fact sheet
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31174515/ns/world_news ...
Comparing MSNBC to Fox News?
Fox News is one lie after another.
Fox news promoted the death of an Abortion Docter who specialized in late term abortions.
Dr Tiller helped women and a lot of young girls? (some as young as 9)
Girls that young have a higher rate of death from child birth but those are FACTS that Fox news wont report. - paintgrl, on 06/14/2009, -14/+116You think the MSM would realize Americans would be very interested in such revolutionary behavior. I wonder if it is a political move some how.Great did I just start a conspiracy theory?
- ugacrew, on 06/14/2009, -11/+110This story is on the US Yahoo front page. I don't think you've been looking hard enough
- darthjure, on 06/14/2009, -4/+72NPR has been talking about it.
- xrmb, on 06/14/2009, -7/+65absolutely not true, i've seen it covered on FOX news, CNN, MSNBC... on Saturday and Sunday.
Buried - Betrayal, on 06/14/2009, -7/+59Oh Paris Hilton has a new boyfriend. Nice.
- whorunbartertwn, on 06/14/2009, -1/+47It's a front page story Fox news: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526220,00.html
It's a front page story on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.ele ...
It's a front page story on MSNBC: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31351572/ns/world_news ...
Sometimes people on digg are like trains, stuck on a fixed track. - bigp3rm, on 06/14/2009, -6/+52I don't know why people keep posting ***** like this. It's all over the news in my city. ffs..
- fasda, on 06/14/2009, -3/+44http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/world/middleeast ...
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/landsl ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/world/middleeast ...
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/world/middleeast ...
that's just from the New York Times and I've have heard stories from NPR on a long car trip today. But lets clear something up CNN MSNBC and FNC are US news channels that do hardly any work outside the US that's just how they operate. The BBC on the other hand is an international institution. - RSMiller, on 06/14/2009, -2/+39Been watching CNN all day and all its been is the Iranian election.
- asgardshill, on 06/14/2009, -2/+37I've heard this accusation quite a bit this weekend, but CNN has pretty much been doing wall-to-wall coverage about this all weekend too. I don't get the criticism of them at all.
- GammaStream, on 06/14/2009, -2/+32I'm sure whether your a troll or just really ignorant but on the off chance anyone clicks to see your comment after it's buried to hell here are a few of the reasons why it matters.
1. Oil prices - if this causes instability in the middle east, oil prices will rise quicker and you will pay more at the pump in the US.
2. Stability in the region; The US currently gives large amounts of aid to Israel from your taxes. If Iran becomes more militant than Israel will probably want greater amounts of aid now and in the future. This means more money spent in another country rather than America or higher taxes.
3. Iraq is right next to Iran, US troops currently occupy Iraq. If a less militant government is elected, the US mission is more likely to be a success.
4. Iran is currently trying to develop nuclear weapons. I would hope you, like most of the world would prefer that nuclear weapons are never used again. This elections has consequences for that happening.
ect. ect.
Please go and get a clue. - skidork, on 06/14/2009, -5/+33LOGIC?!
THIS...IS DIGG!!!
*kicks you into bottomless pit. the bottom is lined with sharp buries.* - davdev, on 06/14/2009, -2/+26No Iran elects a virtually powerless figure head as President, and then is ruled autonomously by an oppresive religious leader with little to no regard for the civilian authority
- Lionhart, on 06/14/2009, -0/+23Glad i'm not the only one that's downright sick of the stupid prison documentaries. WTF MSNBC, Do you think news doesn't happen on the weekend???
- masamunecyrus, on 06/14/2009, -1/+249 Stories about Iran on the front page of cnn.com
http://www.cnn.com/
3 stories on front page of FOX News
http://www.foxnews.com/
4 stores on front page of MSNBC
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/
Top story on CBS
http://www.cbsnews.com/
1st story on the AP wire
http://hosted.ap.org/
Top story on Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/
3 stories, pictures, and videos on New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Top story on USA Today
http://www.usatoday.com/
Top story on Google News US
http://news.google.com/news?ned=us
Did anyone even check the news, or are you just assuming that American news doesn't care? - defsyfe, on 06/14/2009, -1/+24Actually I was watching CNN just the other day and they were discussing this and how the elections appeared to be a facade and how it will be interesting to see the Iranian people's response. Also the American media does not have a lot of presence in Iran.
- BlacklabelSAR, on 06/14/2009, -2/+24You are correct but it is not new.
One example was FOXNews non-stop coverage of everything and anything related to the deaths of Anna-Nichole Smith and her son when all the others were reporting on the Iraq War. CNBC shills for big business also. Just look at who owns the major "news" outlets, and then look at what other interests they have.
If you are in the top layer of society, you don't want the boat to be rocked. Maintain the status quo. - nojoegohome, on 06/14/2009, -7/+28BBC is the market leader for documentary's and news
- inactive, on 06/14/2009, -4/+25Wait the american media is silent? I'm getting hourly updates here.
- Kyan, on 06/14/2009, -0/+19And Al-Arabiya TV reports mobile phone service in Iran has been cut off...
- ThatsNotPoetry, on 06/14/2009, -1/+19Thank you for blatantly advertising your uneducated simplicity. It makes things much easier for the rest of us.
- Coven, on 06/14/2009, -0/+17Lukas, you've got to be just about the dumbest troll on Digg. GDIAF
- SamSks, on 06/14/2009, -1/+18Fox viewers only care about NASCAR!
Indy races are for the intellectual elitists! - sodade, on 06/14/2009, -0/+16and all that lack of real democracy is the fault of which world superpowers?
- DivisibleByZero, on 06/14/2009, -4/+19The the problem is that US Americans don't have maps...
- bicyclethief, on 06/14/2009, -1/+16I think the U.S. MSM is keeping silent because the U.S. government doesn't want to seen as any sort of force behind these protests, particularly after Obama's recent admission of the U.S. role behind the 1953 Iranian coup.
It's almost like another sign that the MSM is a tool of the U.S. government rather than a separate entity that keeps it in check. - pinetree, on 06/14/2009, -0/+14"You think the MSM would realize Americans would be very interested in such revolutionary behavior."
Why, was Paris Hilton involved? /sarcasm - konebone69, on 06/14/2009, -1/+15What the ***** are all of you talking about? I've been watching CNN off and on throughout the day and Iran's election has been the main subject all day long. As I write this I'm watching live "BREAKING NEWS" coverage of the protests and for the past 30 minutes they literally haven't mentioned another subject, not even once.
This reminds me of the last highly dugg up story a month or so ago that was saying how the American MSM wasn't covering the collateral damage in Afghanistan and they showed a clip from a middle eastern network showing one particular strike and the aftermath in the hospital. Literally as I clicked on the story I was watching CNN and they not only covered the same story, they showed THE SAME ***** NEWS REEL. And to add insult to injury, CNN actually did some research into the situation and found out it was the Taliban who fabricated the strike and made sure the story got out like it did.
Digg users can be some of the smartest, and some of the most gullable, people all at once. If you dugg this story up, you obviously haven't even been watching the news today. Don't believe everything you read.
NOW HURRY! DIGG ME DOWN! How dare someone go against the Digg sheep!! - SamSks, on 06/14/2009, -0/+14Damn straight! you tell'em!
This is what Americans are REALLY interested in:
The current news about American Idol.
How's Brittany doing.
The Hilton chick, has she done anything outrageous lately? - kh99, on 06/14/2009, -3/+17I'm sure there's plenty of things to complain about with the American MSM, but if you're going to do it you should know what you're talking about. I've been aware of this story because CNN has been reporting on it. If you mean that they should have cameras there and be showing it 24/7, well, I'm kind of glad when they don't turn something in to an entertainment show.
- GoldenGlovez, on 06/14/2009, -6/+20If only us americans did this when Bush was elected for a second term... It's 2009 and I'm still Swiss.
- InetRoadkill, on 06/14/2009, -0/+13Unfortunately, the sarcasm about Paris Hilton strikes home. If this scandal occurred on American Idol, it would be front page news on every US media outlet for weeks and covered in excruciating detail.
- zemkacz, on 06/14/2009, -3/+16If it is bottomless then how is there a bottom lined with sharp buries?
- northwatuppa, on 06/14/2009, -1/+14No, but you did kind of sort of suggest an excuse for the MSM.
- blapierre, on 06/14/2009, -0/+13wtf is yanno.
- kh99, on 06/14/2009, -3/+15That's funny, because when I watch Fox News it looks to me like right wingers are mad because he might actually be able to do it.
But I don't understand how your comment applies to this story - if the MSM is left wing controlled (which I don't believe but the right seem to insist on), then they should be glad to show that the people of Iran want change. So is it that you don't undertstand what's going on there, or do you not care because you just wanted to work in your little ring-winger comment attacking Obama? - airwalkery2k, on 06/14/2009, -0/+12I think CNN is just more interested in reading off comments sent to their twitter account.
- harmlessdrudge, on 06/14/2009, -1/+13I think you mean documentaries and news
- Prayformojo777, on 06/14/2009, -1/+12The fact that you right-wing nuts are sooooo irked at Obama being our President just makes my damn day.
- whorunbartertwn, on 06/14/2009, -0/+11Somehow there are people who are getting different news broadcasts in America than I am too.
- deathandtaverns, on 06/14/2009, -6/+17I just flipped between fox news and CNN and they are both talking about it right now... so yeah.
- kahoona1, on 06/14/2009, -7/+18Abortion is legal so it isn't murder...read a dictionary some time.
- Azimuth1, on 06/14/2009, -3/+13The BBC doesn't have an agenda. The fact that's it's accused of having a pro-Israeli bias by Arabs and a pro-Palestinian bias by Jews is enough to convince me of that.
- Qumahlin, on 06/14/2009, -2/+12We aren't talking about web portals, we are talking about the #1 form of MSM, the television. People fail to realize that while the web continues to grow by leaps and bounds there are still more people who trust what they hear on FOX, CNN, MSNBC, etc over anything they read on the internet.
- ulmedas, on 06/14/2009, -0/+10@Metavirus, I read stories about it all day all over the internet, including the washington post, NYT, and several regional paper. Maybe it didn't make it to NBC's nightly news, but the nightly news never really has any in-depth coverage anyway. Anyone who relies on television for their news is always going to miss important international stories. They simply don't have the space or concern for most international stories.
- oriondr, on 06/14/2009, -0/+10CNN has been talking about the elections (and protests) in Iran all day long...
- jcrew77, on 06/14/2009, -1/+11Hi! I am Nobody.
- roccanet, on 06/14/2009, -0/+10in a democracy the votes of the people actually count sir...
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