Those little priorities

[candle]

Driving into work today, I channel surfed through the CBS radio news, and was struck by the fact that 3 US soldiers who were killed today in Iraq were given approximately six seconds of coverage (and no coverage of the 13+ Iraqis) while NFL player complaints on insufficient pensions received around thirty seconds (and a hearing in the Senate

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[rbandrews]

Look at hospital beds sometime. They all have little personal TVs next to the outlets for medical equipment.

Life support, and life replacement.

[benneer]

I've felt NPR does only a moderately better job of covering issues than the mainstream media sometimes. Not to be too much of a conspiracy theorist but I do wonder if as they gain more corporate sponsors like wal mart and their ilk the quality of reporting has degraded over time.