Comments on: Mainstream Media Obsessed with Sex, Sex, Sex!

By: Bithead

Bithead — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 19:05:43 +0000

Yup. I should have made that clearer in the post. It took the blogs a while to catch up. But, as noted in the post and amplified by Steven Taylor's comment, it's hardly surprising that that's the case.

I begin to suspect a lot of this may be simply a matter of timing, vs the depth involved in each story.

By: Jorge Tschebotarjew

Jorge Tschebotarjew — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 16:57:56 +0000

Georgia-Ukraine-USA axle may backfire with the European Union. There is no interest at the present time in resuming the cold-war posture against the energy reach partner Russia, who is learning fast the benefits of being the largest and soon richest democratic State in Europe. The present day Russian is positioning itself as the fifth largest world economy by the year 2020, as it aims to become by then, full member of the European Union... Then there is an internal growing opposition to the present policies of all three mentioned States.
Mr. Obama is aware of this.

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Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:00:02 +0000

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By: Bill H

Bill H — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:57:29 +0000

OT, but I have to comment on your hometown. I had no idea you lived in Anniston. I was a contractor in Atlanta for many years and once performed a contract relining plating tanks (vats, not the Army weapons) at the Anniston Army Depot. Anniston may be in the most beautiful place in the entire world. The contract took over a year to complete, that is a huge plating facility, and I spent a lot of time there. The town and the people were just a tremendous delight.

I have also been to races at the Talledega Speedway more than twenty times.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 10:53:17 +0000

I wrote that post this morning, most of the front page of memeorandum was taken up by the Edwards story, as I linked in the post

Yup. I should have made that clearer in the post. It took the blogs a while to catch up. But, as noted in the post and amplified by Steven Taylor's comment, it's hardly surprising that that's the case. If I hadn't been hearing a lot of professional discussion on the matter at the Atlantic Council over the past few months, I'd be in the same boat.

By: Cernig

Cernig — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 02:36:40 +0000

James, when I wrote that post this morning, most of the front page of memeorandum was taken up by the Edwards story, as I linked in the post. I'm very gald to see that's changed this evening. Regards, C

By: Steven Taylor

Steven Taylor — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 01:53:27 +0000

I must confess, I have posted twice on Edwards and so far none on Georgia (although the second post was mostly to make fun of a CNN headline). I have been planning on posting on Georgia, but really had nothing intelligent to say off the cuff, and therefore am digesting information before posting. Even then, I must confess that my knowledge of South Ossetia is quite minimal, indeed despite my PhDedness and all that, I don't think I had ever heard of the region prior to yesterday. However, I clearly know that the Georgia story is far more important than the Edwards one.

By: James Joyner

James Joyner — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:42:16 +0000

Bithead:

That's what I'd have expected and I wouldn't have been terribly upset by it. But, as the screencaps above demonstrate, it actually wasn't the case this time, at least with the newspapers.

By: Bithead

Bithead — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:37:41 +0000

James;

This isn't just sex. In short, domestic political scandal invariably outweighs a foreign war we're not involved with, the run up to which has a rather complex storyline.