Pew Survey: Fox News Covered Obamacare 80 Times More than Philippines Typhoon by Niki2

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Pew Survey: Fox News Covered Obamacare 80 Times More than Philippines Typhoon

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013 6:05 PM

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...

Two major stories have taken up the bulk of cable news coverage over the past couple of weeks, but depending on which network you’ve been watching, you may not know that one of them even exists. The Pew Research Center conducted a survey of cable news content from November 11-15 and found that, while CNN struck a fairly good balance between coverage of the Affordable Care Act and Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, Fox News devoted 80 times more coverage to Obamacare than they did to the deadly typhoon.

MSNBC fell somewhere in between, still devoting far more coverage to Obamacare than the typhoon, of which the death toll is estimated to be more than 4,000, though by a factor of 4-1 compared to Fox’s 80-1. Like CNN, new cable news network Al Jazeera America also spent more time covering the typhoon than Obamacare.

The full breakdown for each of the four networks can be seen in the graphic at http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2013/11/20/obamacare-v-philippine
s-typhoon-how-cable-covered-two-big-stories/

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013 6:13 PM

JONGSSTRAW

I was watching this ..

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013 6:54 PM

FREMDFIRMA

Worth a note that we DID send the USS George Washington carrier group.
Much as I'd like to cut the hell out of the miltary budget, those are one place I'd swing the axe lightly, cause for disaster relief there's almost no better bulwark - not only do you have a lot of trained personnel, medical support, large kitchens and the ability to put those personnel where they are most needed very quickly, more importantly ALL of those personnel from the lowest midshipman to the highest admiral is crisis-trained, and the logistical ability to coordinate large numbers of personnel on a single focus is what the US Navy excels at - much as they can be an irritant, you *NEED* your pencil pushers at a time like this, to coordinate efforts.

Also, FYI - if there's enough remaining or repairable infrastructure on the ground, a carrier can power an entire city off its own generators, which then puts local hospitals, shelters and kitchens back in action as well.

One thing that provokes my ire though - we give out medals for mass murder, why is something like this NOT worthy of one ?
Should we not have a humanitarian medal, to be issued to military personnel who've responded to a disaster and SAVED lives ?

Talk about messed up priorities.

-F

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013 9:36 PM

GEEZER

Keep the Shiny side up

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Originally posted by FREMDFIRMA:
One thing that provokes my ire though - we give out medals for mass murder, why is something like this NOT worthy of one ?
Should we not have a humanitarian medal, to be issued to military personnel who've responded to a disaster and SAVED lives ?

We do.

http://www.navytimes.com/article/20110514/NEWS/105140313/Haiti-relief-
workers-eligible-medals

"When your heart breaks, you choose what to fill the cracks with. Love or hate. But hate won't ever heal. Only love can do that."

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Thursday, November 21, 2013 5:29 AM

FREMDFIRMA

Cool.
Bout fuckin time then, cause I didn't know of any back when I was in.

Here's a laugher - I have a Good Conduct Medal.
Reason for that was that I was new to the unit, and they *HAD* to give it to SOMEBODY or lose associated promotion points for the commander, and being the one asshole who didn't (yet) have any disciplinary actions against them (on that post) I "got volunteered"... man THAT was kind of awkward, especially what with all that came later.

I refuse to wear any of that crap though, you're not actually obligated to do so in Class A uniform, and so I don't, none of it - especially considering what some of em were for, I consider em badges of shame.

-Frem

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