Excerpt: "Top stories according to google news analytics, 2 pm Monday 8.13.12."
Juan Cole; public intellectual, prominent blogger, essayist and professor of history. (photo: Informed Comment)
Really, America? Really? These Are Your Top Stories?
15 August 12
op stories according to google news analytics, 2 pm Monday 8.13.12

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This falls under the rubric of " you had better start giving them what they want before they start wanting what you are giving them". Once upon a time we had some of the most extensive and best new coverage in the world. The network news agencies were not afraid of political parties or ramifications for reporting what the deemed important to the Nation.
24 hour news has been the downfall of much coverage of substance. It is hard to fill 24 hours with all things cogent to international and national news. Fox would never be a mainstream news station in the 50's,60's or 70's. The slow demise came on the heels of saving money. I knew a speech writer for Eisenhower who was let go in order to accommodate a fresh out of communications school writer who came much cheaper. This was from CBS news once considered the nest news in America.
It only takes a single generation to turn the tide from real news to entertainment. Just ask Lenin.
We're all sitting here, eating Cheetos and watching CNN, waiting for guys and gals like YOU to tell us how we SHOULD think...even if real "thought" is beyond the capabilities of most RSN readers/comment ators anyway!
Thanks for the pompous, self-righteous comeuppance...c ouldn't you have used something other than the oh-so-tired "Really? REALLY?" phrase? What's next..."Whateve r?"
Pamperin. It helps with your bloating and cramping. Or so I'm told.
If the title is what troubles you then you are indeed shallow. What troubles me is that a list like this can exist in a nation supposedly populated by forward thinking people. Now there's some good marketing!!!
signed,
a pubic inteelekshul
If anything, these items "of interest" are merely the interest of those who control the news media - the 1%. Not what people really find interesting.
Software is neither Left nor Right. It doesn't care what you and I think about a subject. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until... oh, wait, that's the Terminator...
Close enough.
The rest can continue to seek relief from the outdated "Two Party System" that is owned by Wall Street.
If you do not believe that than I am sorry I interrupted your train of thought. Please continue on with your wishful thinking.
Start with your city and state government.
But don't be surprised if the sandbagging hoarders make a show of "improving" things by coming off the rotting trillions they have been keeping off the market in an attempted total power grab.
What deeper or important meaning is to be gained from taking us space with a story about what are the stories getting the most hit on Google ... assuming they are winnowing out the porn.
Just saying something to hear one's self talk seems to be more important to people on the left than on the right, and that is one aspect that needs to change.
So you've never heard of Rush Limbaugh?
There are things going on that should be written about, paid attention too, and researched...in stead we have to read about Mitt the twit...going on about his nonsensical crap, like its viable.
Yes I do agree, does anyone remember Dan Rather? He told the truth and look where that got him. Network news is bought by Right wing extremists.
I do, and the usual suspect is Roger Stone for planting the deliberate forgery, designed to be "discovered", though the discoverer got some signals crossed. Anyway, there is an update on the story at http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/276-74/10976-focus-dan-rather-was-right-about-george-w-bush
It reminds us the original controversy with the elite's favorite Guard unit was started by Republicans over Lloyd Bentsen III, son of Michael Dukakis' VP candidate Lloyd Bentsen. That didn't seem to bother GOP "opposition researchers" who neutralized any attempt by Democrats to do what they tried to do in 1988. See the story for the real background and why it was kept secret so long. I still think they got away with a falsely attributed forgery so brazen that they should be criminally prosecuted for it.
Is there something wrong with pointing out that Republicans tried to paint the appointment process to that Guard unit as corrupt when talking about Democratic VP candidate's son Lloyd Bentsen III, but then hypocritically paint it as all above board when it came to George W. Bush?
Did you read and understand the report?
If you think it is wrong, why do you think so?
Oh yes she got a haircut! Now that is more important than "Real News". I am not sure where to go for real news, CBC or BBC maybe.
--John Spritzler
spritzler@comcast.net
that's a good link spritlzer ... here the basic thought:
- The target audience is the employed working class and small business owners.
The appeal to this audience is based on these main themes:
- Cheating, in order to get things one doesn't deserve, is immoral.
- The federal and state governments do not serve the interests of employed workers and small business owners.
- The federal and state governments serve the interests of corrupt politicians (mainly Democrats) whose electoral power base is the part of the population who cheat to get things (government handouts) they do not deserve.
U.S. military forces exist to defend the freedom of Americans, and this is indeed how they are being used around the world.
But it is AM radio, which might be a good thing for a Progressive organization to follow, measure and publicize ... but that is not what this article is doing, it focuses on Google searches. The other things as we move into the Totalitarian age is that who says any of the information we get is true anyway?
How do we know anything. The Republicans know money by any means, what do the Democrats know as well?
It seems to have had little effect but to create a bit of RSN inter-poster mud-slingin'.
"Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the two Wolds so learnedly are thrust
-like foolish Prophets forth; their words to scorn
Are scattered, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust."
you forgot ugly ...
;-) LOL, just kidding, I agree with you. This article, and this writer really have problems.
The problem with the Left are the large number of lefties that are so easily riled and pandered to they do not know what they are doing or what they agree with, as long as they get a place to vent their bile.
Hey, I never claimed to be purty!
Mind you, the bile is served up in jugloads by the right with their own programmed ignoramus leaders like ol' Limp-balls whipping 'em up. The Democrats need to be a bit more aggressive in fact; I'd love to see Twit R' in front of "Prime Minister's question time (As I did Dimwits) in the British Paliament; no script or tele-prompters there! none of 'em would ha' lasted two seconds.
The ignorant and despondent are the easiest to manipulate...
What are you talking about, your starting to just ramble nonsense.
A field, Bertrand Russel proved, is not a structure, and totalitarianism is an octopus that connects fields through the latest medium or mediums, applied to an Old Guard vis a vis the status quo of education (e.g. see Norman Dodd's interview with G. Edward Griffin). It is not Lynn Margulis' biology.
The Pied Piper really began tooting on 9/11 and one yellow ribbon brought us to the brink of collective murder. "In the beginning, all was mush and without form." Nowhere does it say, "In the beginning was the word." Other nations would do the same as the US given the opportunity to produce Mickey Mouse, I understand, but it is important not to dwell on only the thick and the thin. It is the system needs to change, gaining embodiment, like Francisco J. Varela learned. Justice would help, but what the criminal mind based on excessive riches has placed as victim is the Nation-State and fraud is just the broth that mixes this cocktail.
Where is Indira Singh?
www.RememberBuilding7.org
William Binney and the NSA
Lindisfarne Association Scientists
GUT-CP
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