Quote Originally Posted by Tribesman
Is it a big news blackout from the main stream media , or is that protests in another country and attempts to remedy the problem are not a big newsworthy story when there is so much other crap to write about , until of course something happens to bring it back into the mediaspotlight .

So it is a local issue then, its not like a It's like a virtual blackout on the rioting over here.
Actually, our broadcast networks devote very little time to news of any sort, much less news that is not "local."

A typical evening news broadcast is slated for 30 minutes.

6 minutes of that is devoted to advertising.

5 minutes each for weather and sports.

2-5 minutes for some "light" interest pieces to balance all the "heavy" news at the opening of the broadcast.

1 minute for intros/signoffs/reporter introductions and the like.

So, perhaps 10 minutes of news. At a good professional reading speed, roughly 2 minutes per page, that means that all that gets discussed is what you can cram into 5 type-written pages or so.

Fortunately for the US of A, we follow 30 minutes of local news with 30 minutes of national news so that the 10 minutes of real news is covered twice...virtually word for word...with no need to include other subjects!

After that of course, we devote two 30 minute repeating broadcasts of entertainment news such as ET or Hollywood Insider, since having 2.5 times as much news time devoted to celebrity watching as to actual news is vital to the maintenance of the republic. Besides, it gears people up properly for an hour or so of "dancing with the stars."

Overall, my view of this is: