Has anybody else noticed a striking lack of American media coverage for the events in China?

It seems that Fox News is the biggest culprit here. Last night, their homepage had a story on ISIS, the man who jumped the fence, something political, the Dallas Ebola patient, and how to make an invisibility cloak for less than $100.

I couldn't help but wonder why they would not cover something so important in world events.

CNN and MSNBC also failed to talk much about it or report much.

It doesn't shock me, corporate American news isn't there to provide news, it is there to make money. We like seeing ISIS get blown up, people eat up the hysteria over ebola, and other national security issues.

(09-30-2014 12:39 PM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  It doesn't shock me, corporate American news isn't there to provide news, it is there to make money. We like seeing ISIS get blown up, people eat up the hysteria over ebola, and other national security issues.

Yea, all true. I think there is a deeper question here though, and that's the one I'm trying to get to. The Chinese thing is still great news from an entertainment type view. That fact makes me wonder what the ideological or economic reason behind the total failure is. Or, is our news just that incompetent from top to bottom?

Explain please.

(09-30-2014 12:44 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 12:39 PM)BleedsHuskieRed Wrote:  It doesn't shock me, corporate American news isn't there to provide news, it is there to make money. We like seeing ISIS get blown up, people eat up the hysteria over ebola, and other national security issues.

Yea, all true. I think there is a deeper question here though, and that's the one I'm trying to get to. The Chinese thing is still great news from an entertainment type view. That fact makes me wonder what the ideological or economic reason behind the total failure is. Or, is our news just that incompetent from top to bottom?

You and I aren't the target market. By being the sorts that would post in this room, we are interested in things other than just ISIS have JDAMs dropped on them, we are interested in how the world works. Most people don't pay attention to that stuff. Our news needs to cater to the lowest common denominator.

Again, what the heck is happening in China?

(09-30-2014 12:51 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  Again, what the heck is happening in China?

Democracy protestors in Hong Kong, as many as 100,000 of them.

Check out the BBC News website.

(09-30-2014 12:52 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 12:51 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  Again, what the heck is happening in China?

Democracy protestors in Hong Kong, as many as 100,000 of them.

Check out the BBC News website.

Oh, yeah I heard about that on Fox the other day... What's going on now?

Lots of coverage of it on reddit and CNN

(09-30-2014 12:53 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 12:52 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 12:51 PM)LSU04_08 Wrote:  Again, what the heck is happening in China?

Democracy protestors in Hong Kong, as many as 100,000 of them.

Check out the BBC News website.

Oh, yeah I heard about that on Fox the other day... What's going on now?

Hopefully the beginning of a civil war. The rising middle class in Hong Kong china are becoming fed up with Xi and his elitist regime.

NPR has mentioned it daily but I didn't get a sense of the magnitude of the demonstrations. Those drone images show huge crowds.

They have no weapons,...how will they oppose the Regime?

(09-30-2014 01:22 PM)South Carolina Duke Wrote:  They have no weapons,...how will they oppose the Regime?

You'd think Fox news would be planning the war strategy on TV right now, like they did with North Korea.

China will crack down when the Tiananmen Square comparisons become too real for its liking.

Here's one dude catching a teargas cannister and throwing it back to whence it came.